Liat Yossifor

Liat Yossifor's paintings are composed of bold strokes, stabs, and smudges in alla prima monochromatic fields. Liat Yossifor interchangeably shifts between drawing, painting, and sculpting in thick paint. In her paintings, there is a sense offigural presence, anchors, and hints of recognition, but they appear only to disappear back into movement-based abstraction, which is the center of her work.

For her first printmaking project with Printer's Proof, Liat Yossifor, whose surfaces are made by incisions into paint, which often echo etchings, addressed another part of her practice – her daily drawings of oil on paper. By working on a non-absorbent surface rather than paper, Liat Yossifor was able to float material and explore the stretch of time that did not fix until it was printed, giving space to the weightless, the poetics, and the immaterial.

The paper qualities were chosen to retain freshness and immediacy of the gesture, making us almost hear the pulse of those nearly silent works. The result shifts from purely optical towards physical; which relates to how the watercolour is solidified by the act of printing, at times, making a thin water-based gesture read as thick oil paint and such qualities that confuse the eye.