Helen Berman

Helen Berman (April 6 1936) is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist. Her style varies between realistic impressionism and what Israeli curator and poet Mordechai Geldman describes as "lyrical abstract expressionism". Her works have been exhibited in Israel, Germany and the Netherlands.

Contents

1 Biography 2 Solo Exhibitions 3 Group Exhibitions 4 Bibliography

Biography

Helen Berman was born in Amsterdam and as a young girl survived the Holocaust. She was trained as a textile designer at the Eindhoven Academy of Industrial Design. While at the academy, she took extra-curricular coursework in the free arts. After her graduation in 1960, Helen Berman designed textiles for several factories. Some of her designs were awarded prizes and publications in professional magazines.

During the seventies, she studied painting and drawing with Thierry Veltman . In 1978, Berman immigrated to Israel, where she continued to refine her style. During a decade-long residence in Jaffa, she became part of the local artists' community and a member of the Israel Painters and Sculptors Association (IPSA). Since 1998, she has been painting and exhibiting from her studio in Tel Mond.

Solo Exhibitions

• Itzik's Gallery, Beer Sheva, Israel, 1983
• Gallery Amalia Arbel, Rishon Lezion, Israel, 1990
• Artists House (IPSA), Tel Aviv, Israel, 1996
• Schwing Residence, Old Jaffa Artists Quarter, Israel, 1997
• Elah Center, Pninat Ayalon, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2000
• Artists House (IPSA), Tel Aviv, Israel, 2003
• Gallery Re-Lai-S, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2004

Group Exhibitions

• De Schoof, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands, 1972
• Youth Art Center, Beer Sheva, Israel, 1979
• Technology, City Hall, Beer Sheva, Israel, 1983
• Animals, Gallery 13 1/2, Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1989
• New faces, Artists House (IPSA), Tel Aviv, Israel, 1990
• Festive Fruits, Cultural Center, Tel Mond , Israel, 1998
• Genesis, Cultural Center, Tel Mond, Israel, 2002
• Dutch Cultural Days, Castra Art Center, Haifa, Israel, 2004

Bibliography

• Helen Berman, An Enchanted Dream Came True, Báiki issue 24, 2002
• Mordechai Geldman, The Aleph and the Tav, written for the solo exhibition in Tel Aviv, 2003
• A short biography, written for the solo exhibition in Baden-Baden, Germany, 2004