In Harmony with Naomi Freudmann & Tamar Ehrlich
Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre invited Toronto artists Naomi Freudmann and Tamar Ehrlich to show their combined works ”In Harmony” at the gallery from August 15th to September 12th 2010.
Naomi Freudmann was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. In the early 1950s Naomi studied painting in Johannesburg under Italian painter Carlo Sdoya. 1956 and 1957 saw Naomi further her art studies at the St Martin’s School of Art , London, England. After moving to Canada, Naomi continued her studies at the Central Tech School of Art, Toronto. During the 1970s Naomi’s focus shifted to Raku and Sculpture. For many years she created her pieces at the Koffler Centre, Toronto. Naomi has participated in many group sculpture shows and juried art exhibitions. She is a founding member of “Stone Works and Company”.
In 1993 Naomi Freudmann was commissioned by Emunah Women of Canada to create a sculpture honouring the Danish people for their humanitarian rescue efforts of Danish Jews during the Shoah. The sculpture was presented to the Danish Government at a special ceremony. Many of Naomi’s sculptures are held in private collections in Canada, the USA and Israel. Naomi will show pieces in Alabaster, Bronze and Raku.
Tamar Ehrlich was born in Poland, she survived the Holocaust in hiding with her parents. Educated in Germany, Israel and France, Tamar studied languages and worked as a translator and interpreter in England. She was always fascinated by art, and spent many years, after the war, touring European museums.
Tamar studied and worked in many mediums before settling on painting. Lately, pastel has been her chosen medium. Studies include Two Dimensional and Colour Design with Renata Realini, Chinese brush painting with Jeremy Tsai, and Life drawing with Warren Luckok and Paul Young. Tamar has studied clay technique and sculpture with Beck Breland. She has also participated in many workshops and art courses. Tamar co-owned “ Total Space Designers”, an architectural ceramic company, which specialized in large clay environments and murals between 1976 and 1989.
Commissions include works for the Royal Ontario Museum, Osgoode Hall’s judge’s chambers, Sears Company ‘s corporate office as well as many professional’s Toronto offices. Tamar has had several one-man (woman) shows of her paintings, and participated with both clay sculptures and paintings at shows at the Central Technical College, and Koffler gallery. The present show is a “ Travelogue” documenting memories of Tamar’s trips to many countries.
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