Porcelain sculptures
Emergence
Cube
Drinking Sorrow in a Cup of Love
Biography
Sharon Brill is an Israeli ceramic artist who lives and works in Atlit, Israel.
Graduated in graphic design, and practicing ceramics otherwise, Sharon Brill’s artistic approach was first visual. After a residence in the USA at the Skidmore school, Sharon Brill decided to focus entirely on sculpture as her principal activity and as a way to satisfy her growing appeal for manual creation, as well as her need to get physically involved in her creations.
Her production is made of pieces whose aesthetics is marked and delicate. The pieces are made from wheel-thrown or slab-constructed and altered porcelain, they are sanded with different sized sandpaper before and after the oven step. Her sculptures are surprising and dynamic, their abstract shapes vary from different points of view, granting the viewer multiple possibilities of imagination and discovery.
Elegant and unique ceramics, the sculptures take shape during a long creative process always guided by the artist’s instinct. From the shaping to the building phase, Sharon Brill is led by her sensations. Intuition and spontaneity are the key words of the artist’s technique, who considers her work as an exploration.
She says: “My work is created out of an internal drive, as if emerging out of itself. What intrigues me is plunging in, creating spontaneously and intuitively, opening the layers, in search of what lies behind the overt, what is hidden within… The principle of my work lays in the integration of two concepts: on the one hand a meticulous and minimalist aesthetic, and on the other hand a spontaneous research, limitless and intuitive.”
The artist’s main inspiration is the sea. She says: “Ever since I can remember, the sea has been an integral part of my life. ». Inspired by the energy of the sea, a marine atmosphere emerges from the sculptures which sometimes look like waves or shells. The artistic creation is continuously influenced by the composition of the different textures and colors created by the light, the air, the water and the sand we can see on the coasts.
CV
Education
- 2011 : Ceramic studies with Prof. Anat Shiftan SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz , NY,USA
- 2009-2010 : Ceramics studies with Prof. Regis Brodie -Skidmore College ,Saratoga Springs ,NY,USA.
- 2008 : Ceramics studies with Avner Zinger,Giva’t Haviva , Israel.
- 2007 : Ceramics studies with Michal Alon , Giva’t Haviva , Israel
- 2006 : Ceramic studies with Anat Begger , Moshav Dor , Israel.
- 1991-1994 : The Neri Bloomfield Academy of Design and Education, Visual Communication graduate , Haifa , Israel.
Exhibitions
- 2022 – Biennale, The Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israël
- 2018 – The annual exhibition of Bank Hapoalim, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2018 – Raw, Pop-up gallery, Eid Hod, Israel
- 2018 – Motion, Zooza gallery, Tel Aviv – Jaffa
- 2016 – The Eighth Israeli Ceramic Biennale, group show, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
- 2014 – Fresh Paint contemporary art & design fair, group show, Tel Aviv
- 2014 – “InsideOut”, solo show, The Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israël
Awards & Residencies
- 2022 – “The Consentino Prize”, CAPA, Spain
Articles
Exploring Maturation, Transformation, and Loss Through Painting: An Interview with Sharon Brill
Human-sized flowers, captured at the moment they begin to fade, unfold across dark red sandpaper in Sharon Brill’s latest paintings. In this...
Interview : Sharon Brill evokes her new series ‘Emergences’
For the unveiling event of her new series ‘Emergences’ on Artistics, the Israeli sculptress Sharon Brill gave an interview. Through her answers...
Introducing Sharon Brill
Artist Sharon Brill has made porcelain her substance of predilection. The bare and perfectly smooth surface of her sculptures draws us into a...
