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       June Ben-David                                                  New Work      

         It's electric         From Cyberspace to Nature         Rhythm of Urban Time         Urban Abstract          CV

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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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