Watercolors 2000-2007

Eve Menes was born in Belgium, grew up in New York in the forties, studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and has been fascinated by the medium of watercolor since the seventies.
Many of these large watercolors are inspired by impressions of the French Hill neighborhood, but Menes also goes beyond landscape to the human presence. Her watercolors are painted in abstract brushstrokes, with large areas of watercolor becoming fields of color and areas of paper remaining exposed.
“These landscapes by Eve Menes are abstract painting at its best; painting that grows out of the figurative with the sole aim of a progressive leave taking…up to the triumph of the metaphysical over the physical.” Gideon Ofrat, from the text accompanying the catalog.

About the exhibition

Eve Menes was born in Belgium, moved to Brazil with her family in 1940 and grew up in New York. She studied art at Pratt Institute and Columbia University at a time of much ferment in the New York art scene. She has been fascinated by the medium of watercolor since her move to Israel in 1970.Many of these large watercolors are inspired by impressions of the French Hill neighborhood. But she also goes beyond landscape to the human presence. Her watercolors are painted in abstract brushstrokes, with large areas of watercolor becoming fields of color and areas of paper remaining exposed.“…this is an aquarelle whose spontaneous components are stations in pictorial contemplative meditation extended over time, meditation sustained by silence and open space……These landscapes by Eve Menes are abstract painting at its best; painting that grows out of the figurative with the sole aim of a progressive leave taking……. up to the triumph of the metaphysical over the physical.” Gideon Ofrat, from the text that accompanies the catalog.