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June
was born in Israel and currently living and working in Auckland
New Zealand. June is principally a painter but she also makes
sculptures and drawings and has been working as a graphic
designer. June lived for long periods in several countries such
as, Auckland NZ, Tel-Aviv Israel and Melbourne Australia.
In the mid 1990s, June made her urban abstract paintings,
translating the fascinating development of known cities around the
world into visual statements in a bright warm palette. She
continues to develop her urban abstract series while travelling
and looking at differences of cultures, diversity of old cities
that are changing daily with new immigrants, modern
technology and massive architectural development. This series of
paintings took urban architecture as their starting point, each
city with her own unique structure fragmenting the facades of
Hong-Kong, Bangkok, Jerusalem skyscrapers or the anonymous office
buildings architecture as their starting points. The paintings
present graphically reduced details of building facades as
structural all-over linear grids, on top of that layers of colours
and shapes parallel to the human inhabitants.
At some stage this
series got more philosophic and spiritual twist and was developed
by June to a group of paintings called the Rhythm of Urban
time. Here she tried to capture the more"
behind the scene happening"... taking the urban city and
comparing it to the human soul. The structure of a city is
getting a new dimension and developed into something with a life
of its own.
The creation of one
human soul, what we have to pass in our life, what we learn, and
the way we change constantly in expressing ourselves is equivalent
to the creation of our universe and our modern society. The human
race as a whole, while developing constantly, must learn how to
maintain this amazing gift that we have been given, this world,
this earth, Nature.
In the Cyberspace
and Its Electric series June is trying to
capture "things" that are happening in our new
millennium, things that are overwhelming and surprising to us all.
Modern technology, mass media, modern electronic music, etc.
The use of florescent colours, repetition of shapes, in an
expressive, frantic brash strokes and printing repeated shapes,
while still maintaining the basic structures and the never-ending
influence of mother nature... finding the right balance in our
life, while keeping our world as clean and pure as it should be
for the sake of coming generations, without denying the progress
and its benefits.
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