Aesthetics as Instruments of Power and Morality: An Artist Talk by Hagit Barkai

January 13, 2017

When: Wednesday, March 1, 11:30- 12:45
Where: 1st room N1099, University of Houston Downtown
Department of Philosophy
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
One Main Street
Houston, TX 77002

Happening CLT: Carolina Art Crush – Hagit Barkai →

January 1, 2017

Hagit Barkai is an artist and professor, somewhat new to the Charlotte area. Her work in incredibly beautiful and intriguing, and we’re so glad she’s part of our community.
HappeningsCLT: Describe yourself in three words.
Hagit Barkai: Sign without meaning. There is a line that stayed with me from a Heidegger book I read called What Is Called Thinking. He mentioned that Hoelderlin said “we are a sign that is not read.” I think about it as a sign that carries no fixed meaning and it makes me laugh

Self Portraits Show at Greenhill, Greensboro NC

February 6, 2015

http://greenhillnc.org/fritz-janschkas-portrait-museum-and-self-portraits-by-nc-artists

Buried Commentaries: Installation at Caldwell Arts Council.

August 2, 2014

The installation Buried Commentaries is a meditation on hiding. Hiding people. Hiding places. Hiding acts. Hiding what is happening in representations, in ceremonies, in ideologies, in an identity and morphing what happened into new stories, new images.

The installation includes six upright paintings with imagery from staged photo performances representing stories ranging from private to archetypical, and 30 smaller paintings of places in which hiding occurs through normalization, abandonment and memorials.

Among the places I visited are Camp Les Milles in south of France before, during and after its reconstruction into a memorial museum, museums and outdoor memorials in Jerusalem and Berlin, and checkpoints in the Israeli occupied West Bank in Palestinian territories, The photo performances were done with actors, dancers, performance artists, models, and friends in various locations including Houston Texas, Tel Aviv Israel, Berlin Germany and Brignole France.

Carolina Arts

July 31, 2014

http://www.carolinaarts.com/814/814carolinaarts-pg20.pdf

Caldwell Arts Council

July 15, 2014

The Caldwell Arts Council is pleased to announce the August exhibit: “BODY WORKS” featuring figure artwork by Davidson College Assistant Art Professor Hagit Barkai in the main floor galleries. Figure artists featured in the upstairs gallery are: Bobbi Miller (Moran Wyoming), Dan Smith (Hickory NC), Jean Cauthen (Mint Hill NC), Kate Worm (Taylorsville NC), Kenny Walker (Lawndale NC), and Steve Brooks (Hickory NC).

"Painting in-sights" by Simone Osthoff

January 8, 2012

Looking back at us with a mixture of intent, fear, and defiance, Hagit Barkai’s paintings increasingly implicate viewers in the process of seeing. Her haunting images do not smooth over disruption and anxiety. Instead, they open the abyss between knowledge and unintelligibility.

Herald Weekly: Professors display works spanning mediums, purposes

November 23, 2011

Religion Professor Hun Lye and Davidson student Audrey Gyurgyik guide private viewing rooms at the opening of Hagit Barkai’s exhibit in the Van Every Gallery, “It looks Something Like This.” The oil paintings will be on display until Dec. 7.

It Looks Something Like This

November 8, 2011

It Looks Something Like This: opening night.

Charlotte, NC Creative Loafing, Nov 8 2011

November 8, 2011

A viewing of Hagit Barkai’s It Looks Something Like This exhibit at Davidson College’s Van Every Gallery conjures a sense of uneasiness. The mostly nude figures — with faces somewhat blurred — convey feelings of vulnerability, apprehensiveness and disarray through the canvasses they embody.A viewing of Hagit Barkai’s It Looks Something Like This exhibit at Davidson College’s Van Every Gallery conjures a sense of uneasiness. The mostly nude figures — with faces somewhat blurred — convey feelings of vulnerability...

New art exhibit comments on body-image, gender and victimhood

November 3, 2011

Art faculty, Hagit Barkai, opened "It Looks Something Like This," an exhibit of evocative figurative paintings on Thursday, November 3, 2011. A crowd of students, faculty and art enthusiasts gathered in the Katherine and Tom Belk Visual Arts Center (VAC) to celebrate as Barkai debuted her work to the Davidson community.

It Looks Something Like This

November 3, 2011

Solo Show at the Van Every Gallery, Davidson College

Opening Reception: November 3, 2011

"It Looks Something Like This" November 3rd

September 30, 2011

Solo Show at Van Every Gallery, Davidson NC

Resistance Press Release

May 26, 2011

"Elegance and the Incomplete Idea" by Dan Mitchell Alison

May 26, 2011

Good painting is always sincere. Great art is always honest, and artists arrive at greatness by channeling a burning desire. They take what is known and what is felt, and place it before us for our consideration so that we may stop a moment to think and feel a little more. Their original mark is as singular as a fingerprint and needs no comparison to the others for any reason other than historical reference. Originality is never the intent, but rather the result when the work has evolved from the inside out, from the heart of the individual and the burning desire that leads them.

We find Hagit Barkai and the evidence of her journey nearer the beginning than the end, but can still see an evolution from her earlier body of work. Barkai's work is truthful and smart. She reminds us that we are not always pretty but sometimes just vulnerable, unaware and exposed. " I construct a space that is inhabitant by lives that are not fully there anymore, lives that are not fully there yet, and lives that are there but for one reason or another are not considered to be there." We need smart artists to challenge our preconceptions so that we might overcome the prejudice of our perspective and allow ourselves the happiness that comes from a wider view. Hagit Barkai demonstrates all the skill and desire she needs to share her vision, and the intelligence, honesty and heart to see it all. (view the complete essay here)

DMA - Nau-haus 2011

Additional Support: May, 2010

May 8, 2011

Spacetaker’s new gallery space features group exhibit: Additional Support
Artist Resource Center (ARC) Features Artists Hagit Barkai, Kelley Devine, and Jessica Jacobi During May

The Art of Hagit Barkai: Between the Abject and the Sublime, by Surpik Angelini

February 2, 2011

srael was the birthplace and cultural crucible where Hagit Barkai witnessed meaningful battles waged in the name of selfhood, as well as deaf and blind walls erected to keep the Other out. A growing rift between the culture of the Diaspora and the culture of the Settlers happening while...