Nationality Israeli, Jewish Known for Painting Role Artist | Name Joshua Borkovsky Movement Israeli art | |
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Born 1952 Rishon LeZion Education Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem | ||
Joshua (Shuky) Borkovsky (Hebrew: יהושע (שוקי) בורקובסקי; b. 19 January 1952 in Rishon LeZion) is an award-winning Israeli artist who lives and works in Jerusalem.
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Biography
Joshua (Shuky) Borkovsky was born in 1952. In 1973–1977, he studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. He began teaching at the Art Teachers College in Ramat Hasharon in 1978. From 1979, he joined the faculty of Bezalel. He has also taught workshops at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1980/81, he attended Hunter College in New York for his MFA degree.
Borkovsky's work features phantasmagoric imagery such as the silhouettes of sailing ships, and cartographic and geometric images.
Borkovsky's exhibition at the Israel Museum in 2013, "Veronese Green," featured 58 works from 10 cycles of paintings created in 1987– 2012. Borkovsky creates open-ended cycles, with one painting differing slightly from the next. The cyclical nature of these works creates a sense of time standing still. Many of the paintings evoke the image of photographs being developed in a darkroom.