Chasing images
Israeli-born Billha Zussman studied her graphic arts in Amsterdam where she now lives and works. She has both exhibited and been awarded as an innovative graphic artist and cartoonist in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Belgium and the USA since the 1980s.
The progression of her technique has resulted in an acclaimed style of graphic print that begins with a lino cut. Far from stopping at the traditional lino print, however, Zussman allows the lino image to redefine itself in relation to black-and-white elements, reverse imaging, overlay, color print image carriers and even sculpturally inclusive of the cut-out lino plate itself. This convoluting and combining of elements conjoins art and artifact in an inseparable embrace that presents an altogether unique face to the viewer.
In an almost MacLuhanesque sense then, for Billha Zussman, her medium has in a very literally way become an intrinsic part of her message
| Present day | Active as a guide at the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | ||
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| 2013 | The Orange Church, Amsterdam, Month of the Graphic Art. November 2013. http://www.maandvandegrafiek.nl/ | ||
| 2013 | The American Jewish Museum of Greater Pittsburgh presents: A Stitch in Jewish Time. PROVOCATIVE TEXTILES. | ||
| 2013 | The Golden ghetto Award, Venice, Italy | ||
| 2013 | Fantastic Fibers, Paducah, USA. National Quilt Museum, An international competitive exhibition that seeks to showcase a wide range of Outstanding works, related to the fiber medium | ||
| 2013 | Museum of Imajewnation: Freedom Imagined, Freedom Lived. An artistic Review of The Passover promise. | ||
| 2012 | The Morris and Sally Justein Heritage Museum, Toronto, Canada presents: COVER THY HEAD, an exhibition and juried show. | ||
| 2011 | Bet Am Shalom 17th Judaica Craft Show, NY, USA | ||
| 2011 | Museum of Imajewnation: Sukkah City/Defining and Defying Boundaries An exhibition of Sukkot walls and boundaries, St. Louis, USA | ||
| 2010 | Museum of Imajewnation, St. Louis. USA Drama on the Shabbat table. The role of the Shabbat Challa Cover | ||
| 2010 | International Contemporary Masters 2010: World Wide Art Books | ||
| 2008 | 5th International Istanbul Cartoon Festival – “Interlectual Tolerance” | ||
| 2008 | Fortocartoon 2008 – Portugeese Printing Press Museum – The Human Rights (more…) |
