'Beth Grossman is a socio-political artist, who sees the visual as a way to create community dialog. Her art is a comfortable point of entry into the ongoing dialog about ‘correct’ history, the life-shaping force of religion and the power of social beliefs. The artist takes creative liberty with these charged topics and makes them accessible with beauty and humor. By shifting the context of familiar objects, words and images, she opens them up for fresh examinations that are by turn playful, stimulating and thought provoking.'
'In works of Asya Katz, who was born in Bulgaria in the family of handy women and needlewomen, the motives of Balkan people appear spontaneously like breathing. The most profound, genetically incorporated in the visual language of the artist, they could not be deafened by many years of life spent in Israel.
Her favourite symbols are balloons, flying umbrellas, the wind itself, motion, birds... The very tissue of her works is light and translucent. It is light, but never simple, not curt. Asya combines capabilities of dry needle, watercolour, pastel, coloured pencils and even tea. All her works are accomplished on a watercolour paper. They produce a uniquely abundant, live surface upon which all elements are light as breathing, be it ornamental structures or figurative details. Asya's works do not contain a merely smooth background. Each background is a certain space where one can notice permanent motion, where new and new worlds are born.'
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