{"id":342,"date":"2015-08-11T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-08-11T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T19:45:00","slug":"malka-nedivi-at-the-national-council-of-jewish-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/malka-nedivi-at-the-national-council-of-jewish-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Malka Nedivi at the National Council of Jewish Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0414.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-317\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0414.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Maka Nedivi \" width=\"660\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malka Nedivi &#8220;Mother and Daughter&#8221; &#8211; all photos by Jack Burke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the August 9th reception for artist Malka Nedivi\u2019s solo show <a href=\"http:\/\/ncjwla.org\/events\/275\/ncjwlas-art-reception\/\">\u201cMother and Daughter,<\/a>\u201d Nedivi remarked \u201cI\u2019m overwhelmed at how big a reaction people have to this show, and what it does to people in an emotional way. I\u2019m so moved.\u201d Overwhelmingly beautiful and moving are definitely a part of the descriptive vernacular when it comes to Nedivi\u2019s work. Inspired both in subject and material by the artist\u2019s seamstress mother, this don\u2019t-miss-show runs through September 16th at the National Council of Jewish Women in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0426.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-319\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0426.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Malka Nedivi - Photo by Jack Burke\" width=\"660\" height=\"946\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malka Nedivi &#8211; Photo by Jack Burke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A painter, sculptor, and collage artist, Nedivi says that all of her work is inspired by her mother, and both her parents\u2019 previously unknown past as Holocaust survivors. Nedivi\u2019s work uses a great deal of wood and fabric. \u201cMy mom loved wood and boxes, so I chose materials that she loved,\u201d the artist explains. The tactile nature of Nedivi\u2019s work contributes to the feeling that each carefully layered piece is alive with emotion, visually leaping off the floor of the gallery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-320\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0433.jpg?w=532\" alt=\"Floating Woman\" width=\"532\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her \u201cFloating Woman\u201d mixed media sculpture shows a white-bodied, ghostly woman in a vibrant red dress. The vibrancy of the dress beats like a visual heart, and expresses life, no matter how the woman, with her pale facial features, may fade. Emblematic of the artist\u2019s bond with her mother, the piece seems to express the idea that love lives on after the body may have faded away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0421.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-318\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0421.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Floating Doll\" width=\"660\" height=\"1002\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy Big Doll\u201d is the large scale six-and-a-half-foot mixed media sculpture that greets viewers entering Nedivi\u2019s exhibit at the NCJW. The doll figure\u2019s fabric hair and patterned skirt and top look like flowers. She seems to be blooming with both life and sadness, her eyes downcast, her cheerful colors ignored. With most of the sculpture white, there is the feeling of an otherworldly presence animating her figure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0396.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-314\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0396.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Nedivi\" width=\"660\" height=\"609\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mixed media on wood, Nedivi\u2019s \u201cMemory\u201d features a variety of figures, children, and adults, and a tree that may be the tree of knowledge, with ripe fruit upon it. A man and a woman stand at either ends of the piece, with two smaller girls, and a smaller boy and girl, backs turned to us, in the middle. Behind these smaller figures is a woman with Rapunzel-like long hair, holding her face in her hands. This figure is two-dimensional, the others are three. Viewers may take the figures on both ends of the canvas to be Nedivi\u2019s parents, the woman with the long hair sitting beside the tree of knowledge is perhaps the artist herself, endowed with the previously unknowable about her parents, knowledge that children, perhaps her own, perhaps the child she once was, are turning toward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-322\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0435.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"Nedivi\" width=\"660\" height=\"951\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Created on wood with paper, fabric, acrylic, and glue, the artist\u2019s \u201cSingle Woman\u201d is a riveting figure, her expression wise, withdrawn, palpably sad; her skin pale, her hair grey. Within this face is so much poignant life, and so much intricacy that comes with age. The wood itself that holds her visage is knotted and rough, the background to life in an imperfect world.<\/p>\n<p>In each of Nedivi\u2019s works, there is an intertwined immediacy: beauty and sorrow, cast down eyes and triumphant splashes of color, mother and daughter, past and future. The bared-soul intimacy of these pieces make them almost impossible to look away from, nor would viewers wish to do so. Rather, the pieces are made to pull viewers into a hidden world, a magical world, a world of mighty sorrows, hoarded secrets and pieces of fabric and scrap, and a world in which resilience and joy trump even the darkest past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0438.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-324\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0438.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"F23C0438\" width=\"660\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-321\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0434.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"F23C0434\" width=\"660\" height=\"796\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-316\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0402.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"F23C0402\" width=\"660\" height=\"816\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0397.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-315\" src=\"http:\/\/diversionsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/f23c0397.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"516\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Mother and Daughter&#8221; at the JCJW &#8211; Photos by Jack Burke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Born in Israel, Nedivi studied theater and literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and film at UCLA. She is also an accomplished film-maker. Her art is self-taught, beginning with ceramics in the 1990s. A move back to Israel inspired her current works, these large scale sculptures and collage paintings on both wood and canvas. Many of the pieces in \u201cMother and Daughter\u201d use fabric and other materials found in her childhood home.<\/p>\n<p>The artist has previously exhibited at the Santa Monica Fine Art Studios in Santa Monica, Calif., and was recently selected as one of ten Southern California Contemporary Artists from Israel exhibited at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genie Davis, All Photos: Jack Burke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the August 9th reception for artist Malka Nedivi\u2019s solo show \u201cMother and Daughter,\u201d Nedivi remarked \u201cI\u2019m overwhelmed at how big a reaction people have to this show, and what it does to people in an emotional way. I\u2019m so moved.\u201d Overwhelmingly beautiful and moving are definitely a part of the descriptive vernacular when it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/malka-nedivi-at-the-national-council-of-jewish-women\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Malka Nedivi at the National Council of Jewish Women<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,49,71,81,84],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-collage-artist","tag-holocaust","tag-malka-nedivi","tag-mixed-media","tag-national-council-of-jewish-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diversionsla.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}