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Land of Painting

2018- today: my current series of paintings connects body and landscape in different ways.
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Small Galilee Landscapes 2020-2022

Small landscapes painted from observation, mostly from my studio balcony.
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Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait for a New Year

Since 2009: an annual form of painterly introspection through small self-portraits.
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Studio Dreams

2015-2018: a dreamlike and chaotic meeting of images from diverse sources, touching on mourning, separation and creativity.
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Art History Lesson

2011-2015 images from observation of reality with images from the history of art: my art history.

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Drawings of My Father

2011-2014: Drawings of my father, Lionel Kestenbaum (1926-2016).
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Observation

1992 - today: Drawing and painting from direct observation, an ongoing practice that accompanies all of the other series and is their foundation.
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The Same Landscape

2000-2013: Paintings of the Galilee landscape in which I live and work.
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She and I (2)

The Painter and the Hassid

2007-2010: An imagined visual encounter with two creative individuals who perished in the Holocaust yet whose work survived, hidden.
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Remembrance

2005-2007: Historical and family memories intertwine in this series, sparked by two very different images of Jerusalem encountered in Jewish and Moslem homes.
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Prayer Rugs

2003-2005: Paintings that explore questions of national and religious conflict as well as personal issues of prayer and faith.
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Welcoming Guests

2001-2002: After years of working alone in the studio, I invited nine different people from nearby Galilee communities to pose for me.

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In the Body of the Text

1998-1999: An exploration of the connection and tension between painting and text, working with ancient Jewish sources relating to the prohibition against human imagery.
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Shema

Shema

1996-1997: This series of paintings marks the beginning of my search concerning the relationship between Judaism and art.