Against the Day

Born and raised in the northern United States, Abraham Storer has lived in Israel since 2012. The northern eye through which he observes the local landscape uses a restrained palette and with tools derived from realism. His paintings contain realistic elements, but also abstract or flat surfaces which conceal parts of the view, producing a tension between its two parts: the figurative, which endeavors to present reality for the viewer, and the abstract, which seems to maintain that some things cannot be conveyed via matter.

Some of the paintings center on vague, incomprehensible shapes, some may be partially deciphered, while others are abstract; some are painted as if they had been attached with masking tape to the painting or to a window within the painting, others hover, but all of them are in the painting as if to defy and provide a counterweight to the act of observation, which is at the core of the realistic experience.