Imaginary Landscapes

What is a landscape? Is it a physical place we gaze upon — or rather a feeling, a memory, a state of mind? In the exhibition "Imaginary Landscapes", four women artists come together, each creating landscapes in her own personal way — landscapes that are not necessarily geographic, but rather internal, abstract, and emotional. These paintings do not depict concrete locations but invite the viewer on a free journey through realms of imagination, consciousness, and material. Each artist builds her world from color, line, texture, or memory — and invites the viewer to wander inward. The result is a rich exhibition of personal visual languages, opening into a quiet space, full of freedom and interpretation. Aliza, Jerusalem Painter and sculptor, born in Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu (1948), fifth generation in a family of artists from Florence. Lives and works in Jerusalem. Studied art at Bezalel, in Paris, and at the University of Cambridge. For four decades, she directed the Dante Alighieri Society for the promotion of Italian culture in Israel. Today she focuses on watercolor painting and relief sculpture. Her works offer a softened emotional gaze into an inner landscape, growing from a point and expanding into an open, imaginary space. Yiva Katsiarina Artist, poet, and film director. Born in Belarus and living in Jerusalem since 2019. A graduate of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in film directing. Her documentary films have participated in international festivals and received awards. Alongside her filmmaking, she also paints and writes poetry. Her paintings draw from internal worlds, soft colors, and memory-evoking imagery, like visual poetry. Orna Adoram — Tel Aviv / New York A full-time abstract artist. About a decade ago, she chose to leave the race, close her interior design office, and dedicate herself to painting. For her, painting is the expression of emotions, sensations, thoughts, and life processes. Inspired by her family lost in Salonika, her children, and her loves, she embarked on a journey inward. Her works — acrylic on canvas in many layers — combine recycled industrial building materials from the world of architecture with symbols and concepts drawn from the spiritual world. In harmony of color and form, her minimalist yet powerful works present a fusion of contrasts: between time and place, past and present, material and spirit, grace and emotional turmoil. Through deep observation, layers of color reveal layers of life, locations, states, emotions, and experiences that merge and complete one another. Patricia Abramovitz Artist and owner of ABStudio Contemporary Art Gallery. Her works are created through direct and intuitive engagement with palette knives on canvas, in layers of oil or acrylic paint. Each painting begins with an inner sense of movement and unfolds through attentive listening to the moment and the material. The landscapes in her work emerge from texture, color, and creative impulse — inviting the viewer to drift into another place: imaginative, free, vivid, and present. Her style is marked by strong energy alongside inner softness, and a constant search for freedom and personal expression.