Reposted from @agoragallery - “I was born in Poland in 1936 and I remember my childhood being spent in refugee camps in Siberia during WW2. My work is distinguished by a broad spectrum of vivid and strong colors while incorporating more subdued tons of oil paint and mixed media techniques.” – Zvia Merdinger Israeli artist Zvia Merdinger creates emotive, large-scale, oil and mixed media paintings distinguished by using a broad spectrum of vivid colors and emotional brush strokes. Merdinger's compositions depict her childhood being spent in a refugee camp in Kirgizstan, USSR during World War II; these memories resurface in her paintings as conceptual, organic forms, which, coupled with the scale of the works, allows them to appear as large and striking as they would have been to a child. The abstraction of the ground behind the natural forms also lends the works a dreamlike quality and removes them from reality. Zvia Merdinger, Flowers of Giverny, Mixed Media on Canvas 63" x 55" ©️ Zvia Merdinger / Agora Gallery, New York, NY _ #AgoraGallery #AgoraArt #AgoraArtist #ChelseaGalleries #NYCGallery #NYCArt #NewYorkArt #NewYorkArtGallery #ArtGallery #ArtExhibition #Art #arts_gallery #ZviaMerdinger #Israeliartist #canvaspainting #canvas #mixedmediaoncanvas - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/By106RxHAoU/?igshid=9oo2p757rbtc