Selected Works

Orit Akta (born 1970, Israel)
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Orit Akta’s work, a harmony of gentle, transparent hues on an almost monochromatic scale, is made up of repetitive lines and tiny paint spots that combine into complex images. Her precise, introverted gaze focuses on the tension between the present and the absent and on layered surfaces that reveal esthetic and poetic complexity.
While at first glance her body of work offers a spectacular aesthetic observation, it also allows a fascinating peek into an internal, almost ritualistic, process of introspection. The technique, in which the painting is constructed of dozens of transparent layers, characterizes the painter’s work process, and is poured into every piece, requiring her to enter a hypnotic and meditative, almost Zen like mental state.
Akta’s personal connection in dealing with the feeling of detachment and vulnerability perhaps lies in her roots and is intertwined throughout her body of works. Her paintings are studded with transparent and delicate pieces of lace that represent a kind of absence and vulnerability, but also feminine power.
She studied under the artist Meir Nataf, and has shown in solo exhibitions in Israel and internationally, including an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art after winning the 2011 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art.
VIDEO
Interview with Orit Akta – Winner of the Haim Shiff Award 2011
EXHIBITIONS

Group Show
Winter show 2024
Oct 31 - Dec 31, 2024

GROUP SHOW
AUTUMN 2024
Sep 5 - Oct 18, 2024

Group Show
Summer Show 2024
Jul 1 - Aug 31, 2024

Group Show
Spring Show 2024
May 24 - Jun 30, 2024

Group Show
United We Stand
Nov 15 - Dec 31, 2023

GROUP SHOW
WINTER 2023
Feb 17 - Mar 24, 2023

Group Show
This Is-Realism
Apr 9 - May 14, 2021

Group Show
Territory of Tenderness
Sep 10 - Nov 30, 2020
ART FAIRS

Art Miami
Dec 3 - 8, 2024

Art Miami
Dec 5 - 10, 2023

Fresh Paint Tel Aviv
May 30 - Jun 4, 2023

Art Central HK
Mar 22 - 25, 2023

Art Central Hong Kong
Mar 22 - 26, 2016

Art Stage Singapore
Jan 21 - 24, 2016

Art Toronto
Oct 22 - 26, 2015









