Poetica Magazine

This THANK YOU page
is devoted to the many artists
who gave Poetica the permission
to pubish their work on our web site
and in our print issues

Great work!

Bette Alexander lives and works in Manhattan, and also maintains a home/studio in rural upstate New York near Delhi.

http://www.bettealexander.com/

Presenting the illustrations and writings of Brian Alec Applebaum. From deepest depths to soaring heights, a poetic journey of the mind and heart through one artist's personal mythology. "Blank pages stretch out before me filled with every imaginable possibility. Awaiting a delicate hand touched by destiny. The pen is an extension of my soul as I let the ink flow onto the paper. The emptiness becomes filled as shapes emerge from the void. Possessed of light and life where before was just nothingness. Even the smallest taste brings me home."

http://www.lulu.com/Brian_Applebaum

Helen Bar-Lev was born in New York in 1942, has lived in Israel for 37 years.  She holds a BA in Anthropology.  Since 1973 she has had over 80 exhibitions of her watercolour and pencil landscapes.  Her poems and illustrations have been published in numerous internet and print anthologies.  She and her partner Johnmichael Simon are the authors of Cyclamens and Swords and Other Poems About the Land of Israel (Ibbetson Press, Boston USA) in 2007.  She is editor-in-chief of the Voices Israel Annual Anthology, Senior Editor of Cyclamens and Swords Publishing  www.cyclamensandswords.com and a member of the Israel Artists’ and Sculptors’ Association. 

www.helenbarlev.com

www.elizabethbloom.net

Michael Bogdanow is an award-winning artist, attorney, author and musician, whose art captures the timeless nature of biblical texts through his own contemporary style and point of view. His paintings are included in private and institutional collections and reproduced on the covers of books and records, including Zohar: Book of Enlightenment (Paulist Press), Wandering Stars - An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Fiction and Dream of Zion: American Jews Reflect on Why Israel Matters to Them (Jewish Lights Publishing) and Peri Smilow’s album, The Freedom Music Project. Bogdanow received his undergraduate degree in studio art from Brandeis (magna cum laude with honors in fine arts), his master of fine arts degree from Columbia University, and a law degree from Harvard Law School (cum laude). 

After 20 years of doing commercial graphic design work, Laura Bolter felt a strong desire to express her creative side in a more personal way. Laura found this new direction, creating optimistic, pleasurable images, very fulfilling especially in light of recent world events. Her exploration and celebration of her heritage helps to make some sense of what is happening in the world and to be hopeful about the future. Laura is a heart attack survivor who endeavors to celebrate every day of life and creates art to promote peace and tolerance and to affirm life and spirit in all people. 

www.laurabolterdesign.com.

jeclarke@earthlink.net

Ruth Fogelman, long-time resident of Jerusalem's Old City, is the winner of the Reuben Rose Poetry Competition, 2006, and author of Within the Walls of Jerusalem - A Personal Perspective. Her poetry has appeared in publications including The Deronda Review, Voices Israel,  and various anthologies.  Ruth leads the Pri Hadash Women's Writing Workshop in Jerusalem.

http://www.geocities.com/jerusalemlives/

Lori Goldberg is a Vancouver painter and educator.Over the years her work has taken different directions. From her large abstract expressionist figurative paintings to her painterly still-lifes. In all forms Goldberg is striving for one thing; The interweaving of the ordinary with the extraordinary.She is the observer and at the same time a participant and from this place she strives for the authentic and the genuine. Goldberg’s personal journey is to understand truth and be able to live her life completely from that place. “While I am traveling on this path, I leave a trail of my paintings as a testimony of this journey and a marking of a history.

www.lorigoldberg.ca

photography - Israel

I specialize in editorial images, portraiture and creating poignant, pictorial memories, photographs of Israeli weddings, bat and bar mitzvah photography in Israel, and every kind of family celebration in Jerusalem and throughout Israel. In addition to photographing hundreds of smachot for families from around the world, my work has been published by National Geographic and dozens of other publications in the U.S., Europe and Israel.

www.goldenlightimages.com

smile@goldenlightimages.com

I reside and work in Ein-Hod Artist Village, at the foothills of Mount Carmel. In my work with charcoal, watercolor, oil, acrylic or print, I embrace the landscape from which I derive and hopefully pass on to the viewer optimism, peace of mind and the wonders of creation. Art education: graduate of the University of Haifa, Philosophy and History of Art, graduate of the Art section at the Shine Teachers' Training College, extensive courses at the Avni Institute of Art in Tel Aviv, studied traditional printing art from Salman El-Kara in Ein-Hod, enhanced my creative abilities while working closely for a full year with maestro Kokas Ignac in his studio in Budapest .

A member of the Israel Society of Painters and Sculptors, Tel Aviv.

http://ein-hod.info/artists/ziva/

zsarel@zahav.net.il

http://www.artbysofia.com/about.html

Miri Lavee is an Israeli artist. She lives and works in the beautiful village Karmei-Yosef, where she paints and also teaches. She is a graduate of Midrasha Institution of fine Arts, in Ramat Hasharon. Lavee is an Israeli artist. She lives and works in the beautiful village Karmei-Yosef, where she paints and also teaches. She is a graduate of Midrasha Institution of fine Arts, in Ramat Hasharon.

www.art-miri.com

Alex Levin comes from Kiev, Ukraine, where he was born in 1975 and later on attended Art Academy, which he graduated with honors. In 1990 Alex Levin immigrated to Israel. The main painting styles are Surrealism and Realism. Featuring a range of works in oil, acrylic, pencil, charcoal and tempera paints. Artworks of Alex Levin admired worldwide and were purchased for numerous private, corporate and institutional collections worldwide.

www.artlevin.com

Valenine Lustig was born in Cluj, Romania in 1955. Lustig studied painting with Laszlo Toth and art history with Ervin Ditroi. He emigrated to Israel with his parents, finished high school and served in Israeli army. Lustig studied painting in the Accademia Di Belle Arti in Florence with Trovarelli between 1977 and 1982. He settled in Zurich, Switzerland in 1983. For more information about Mr. Lustig's work: Dr. Edith Balas, Professor of Art History, Carnegie Mellon University and Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh.

www.v-lustig.info

Michal Mahgerefteh is an award-winning artist and poet. Her acrylic paintings and paper collages have been exhibited and offered in galleries and art centers located in New York, New Orleans, and Virginia. Michal's passion is the collage impulse, creating art using newspaper and magazine images, artistic paper and glue. Some of Michal's work have been published in print and on-line in publications such as Being Jewish Magazine, Golda Magazine, ken*again Literary Magazine, The Ghent Reader, among others. Currently Michal is working on a new series of acrylic paintings: Shin." Visit Michal's web site at www.michalmahgerefteh.com for her latest creations.

I am an Israeli born artist who resides in Miami with my husband and daughter. I grew up in a village surrounded by orchards near Hertzlia, on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. With my family I spent some years living in Australia and South Africa. After serving in the Israeli Air Force as a lieutenant, I joined Kibbutz Yahel in the southern Arava desert. In the late eighties I came to the U.S. with my family to pursue studies and I have a BFA degree from Indiana University. With my husband and daughter I have lived in Spain, the Midwest and California. For the past two decades I have been creating artwork in print, pencraft, illustration and papercuts. The subjects of my Judaica are taken from the Siddur, the Tanach, the Sayings of the Elders and the Liturgy of holidays and Life cycle. Motifs in my art come from the natural world and the graphic forms in ancient Jewish artifacts and manuscripts.

Deborah's work is divided into seven catagories:   Hebrew Letters, where Deborah explores the rich mystical interpretation of the Hebrew Alphabet; Sayings & Blessings; Creation, paintings that, according to Jewish tradition, interpret the genesis of the Hebrew letters as the first act of creation; Ketubbot; Commissions; In-Memory; and Collages and Mixed Media.

www.rolnikraichman.com

Internationally-renowned multimedia artist and native Washingtonian, Phillip Ratner is the grandson of Ellis Island immigrants. Ratner's grandfather, Mose Ratner, immigrated to America and was an original musician in the National Symphony Orchestra. Also known as "The Artist of Ellis Island," Ratner's bronze sculptures stand at the base of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York, eight large bronzes symbolic of the immigrants that stand outside the Statue of Liberty near the "Wall of Remembrance" and 33 patinaed statues housed in the National History Museum at Ellis Island.With degrees from the Pratt Institute and American University, Ratner taught art for 23 years in the Washington, D.C. area. Ratner works in sculpture, painting, glass, tapestry, drawing, lithography and graphic arts and has exhibited his art at the Library of Congress, Supreme Court, Vatican, White House, The National Collection of Fine Arts, The National Academy of Science, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, B'nai B'rith and the National Zoo. In 1984, Ratner and his wife, Ellen, moved to Safed, Israel, to found a museum dedicated to Hebrew Bible stories called the "Israel Bible Museum." The Israel Bible Museum, now in Be'ersheva, Israel, boasts more than 250 works of art on the Bible in sculpture, painting and graphics. In addition, he has completed many private commissions and public works. His latest work includes a 6 foot statue of the famed exiled 14th century Italian poet, Dante, and an oversized chess set including sculpted characters from Dante's Divina Commedia commissioned by an important patron. Ratner's current work can be seen at The Ratner Museum in Bethesda, Maryland.

http://ratnermuseum.com/

American Jewish artist Akiva Kenny Segan, born 1950, has spent the last 20 years creating two fine art human rights art series which individualize and restore dignity to the memory of Jewish, Christian and Roma victims of Naziism and Fascism; and contemporary genocide, war and hate victims.

www.holocaust-art.org

Is an Israeli artist who focus in his making on three vast areas:
1. Forms of representation, Digital image and mass-media, Modernism's aesthetic modes, Counter & sub cultures, Social-political critic.
2. Ancient forms of art (such as flemish or persian), ornamentals and the spiritual significants they might carry.
3. Jewish art and philosophy.
He usually weaves ingredients taken from these different directions to create art which is slightly conceptual but also very contemplative - in the sense that it try to transfer fundamental ideas regarding social and personal impositions, and still be 'shallow' and momentarily catchy. At the same time it functions as an investigation about aesthetic modes and cultural traditions. Suffrin is active mainly through painting and also through installation, sculpture and music. His main goal is to influence and make the viewer of his work question common ideas and deepen 'obvious' perceptions.
Born in Jerusalem in 1979 to a father of German origin and a mother of Iranian origin, the duality of these worlds affects Roee Suffrin's artwork.
Suffrin hold a B.F.A Fine Art degree from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. He currently lives and works in Jerusalem.

http://roeesuffrin.com/

http://www.steynovitz-zamy.com/

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ALEXANDER VAISMAN was born in 1967 in Chernovtsy (Czernowitz), a city with a long-standing and strong Jewish tradition, once an important Jewish center in Eastern Europe. Alexander graduated from the Chernovtsy Musical College and worked as a book illustrator and poster designer. Currently Alexander lives in Israel with his wife and four children.

www.wertzateria.com

David Yohanan's art work is sold through Jerusalem Everything on-line store