Location: Seoul, Korea
Date: June 1, 2003- August 31, 2003
Review By:
Exhibition Review

Location: Castra Gallery, Haifa
Date: 2000
Review By:
Exhibition Review

I have been fascinated with the character of “Alice” from Alice in Wonderland for many years. In the year 2000 Castra Gallery in Haifa, Israel, hosted an exhibit of mine - I called it “Alice in Wildland”.

Location: Sheffield, UK
Date: August 23, 2002 - October 4, 2002
Review By:
Exhibition Review

Her Presence in Colours, Asian/International Woman Artists Exhibition is an Extension Project of Conservatory of Fine Arts, Penang, Malaysia.

Exhibition: Magna Mater
Location: The National Arts Club, New York
Date: 2000
Review By: Dr. Alec Mishory, Art Critic & Historian, Branka Berberijan, Art Critic, Spain, Knox Martin, Prof. of Art Formerly at Yale University
Exhibition Review

Knox Martin Review
A true artist is beyond vanity and its ambitions. She, her, woman.

Location: Ramat Gan, Eshkol Ohel Shem
Date: August 18-October 2, 2005
Review By: Elie Lavie, Noa Tal
Exhibition Review

Ilana Raviv
Smiles and Surprises
Eshkol Ramat Gan, Ohel Shem, August 18-October 2, 2005

Exhibition: Synthetic Realism
Location: Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea, Israel
Date: 2001-2002
Review By: Orit Lutringer
Exhibition Review

Ilana Raviv - Synthetic Realism

Exhibition Review

Holocaust

Visual art in its response to human condition could never ignore the evil aspects of life, just as no individual or nation could, without distorting or idealizing reality. From the walls of the best museums in the world countless expressions of brutality and suffering are watching us.

The art (paintings and drawings) of Ilana Raviv has the kind of perceptive rightness as its base as do a certain period of Jackson Pollock, Hals and Miro. When one says a certain period, one indicates a non-analytical flow that congeals the right moment out of a fragile flight, which peaks.

The present exhibit by Ilana Raviv was born out of an emotional tempest, from which spring up the desires of a woman who expresses in painting, her relationship to the heroines of history, mythology and literature. The hinted identification with those heroines and the different commentary made about each one of them in drawing, create the nucleus of the exhibit, which worships the powers of woman: that magical power, a power that transmits a dichotomy of power and strength against all vulnerability and weakness.

'' I am completely and sincerely convinced that the best criticism is amusing and poetic; not the other kind, cold and algebraic which under the guise of being all explanatory, voluntarily shuns any emotion ... but regarding valid criticism, I expect philosophers to understand what I intend saying: in order for it to be deemed valid, in order to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political; It should adopt an exclusive point of view, broadening its horizons as much as possible''. (Charles Baudelaire)

“Smiles and Surprises - Infanta 2005”

Treading, riding, stretching, bending, reaching, extending, lifting – all these and other motions move the fantastic world revealed to us in Ilana Raviv’s works.