Mexico City 1963. Lives and works in Los Angeles, Cal.

Since the late 80’s, Yishai Yusidman has develop a series of work that in a critique and innovative fashion, tackles specific problems of contemporary painting. Jusidman argues that the pictorial experience of the 20th century was guided by artificial dichotomies (such as Figurative/Abstraction, Form/Content, Painting/Concept, Realism/Expressionism) that somehow instill the illusion of the non-practice ness of pre-modern naturalism.

To dismantle these dichotomies, Jusidman appeals to multiple pictorial means anchor in history of painting, interconnecting portrait, landscape and still nature with geometrism, gestualism, and minimalism; thus brings together the analytic rigor with the manual rudeness. Jusidman recovers the possibility that the figurative, naturalism and the image become a part of painting and its compelling potential.