Home | About Us | Contact Us | Join Mailing List | Members Login      ARTISTS All Artists Painters Photographers Sculptors Work On Paper   STOCK ROOM Full Search   EXHIBITIONS Current And Future Past Exhibitions   SERVICES Information for Artists Artist Studios Venue Hire Exhibition Spaces   Artists Login   Yosi Messiah - Abstract    Orange and My Baby Blue $ 5200 Oil on Canvas 140x110 None Albino Giraffe $ 2400 Acrylic On Canvas 153x51 None Dusk City $ 7500 Acrylic On Canvas 168x145 None Emerald Landscape $ 8800 Acrylic On Canvas 170x176 None Genesis $ 6500 Acrylic On Canvas 120x137 None Giraffe $ 5000 Acrylic On Canvas 122x152 None Interaction $ 5800 Acrylic On Canvas 121x121 None Oppidan $ 5800 Acrylic On Canvas 121x137 None Runaway Train $ 6200 Acrylic On Canvas 147x170 None Spiderweb in Pink $ 4200 Acrylic On Canvas 137x122 None Aerial Landscape 1 $ 6500 Acrylic On Canvas 61x61 Grids Red Centre $ 8800 Acrylic On Canvas 152x152 Grids Diablo $ 5800 Acrylic On Canvas 152x122 None Spiderweb $ 6500 Acrylic On Canvas 137x137 None Sunset City $ 4800 Acrylic On Canvas 122x122 None Sydney Harbour $ 13000 Acrylic On Canvas 122x212 None Orange and My Baby Blue $ 5200 Acrylic On Canvas 110x140 None Road Map $ 4800 Acrylic On Canvas 137x137 None Red $ 3600 Acrylic On Canvas 71x183 None White Ghost 1 $ 5500 Acrylic On Canvas 157x157 None   The enrichment of life through multiculturalism is one of the joys of living in Australia; and few could be more multicultural than Yosi Messiah. Born in Israel of Iraqi parents, his art transports a Middle-Eastern cultural mix to the Australian scene. The results are absorbing, with the complexity of structural forms contrasting with the underlying freedom of painterly gesture – visual metaphors of the city and the landscape. Messiah describes his work as expressing ‘the order and repetition of city shapes superimposed upon the confronting beauty and freedom inherited in this vast Australian continent.’ Any new comer to this land, or an old comer returning home, is immediately struck by the open emptiness of the country in which man’s influence is almost unfelt – the opposite of the old world, and the even older world of the Middle East. The reaction is a fundamental part of our cultural creativity, made more complex and fascinating by the striking individualities provided by the many different backgrounds from which people come. So it is with Messiah, whose abstract paintings are rooted in his experience and creative response, mapping his personal and geographical journey. David Thomas, Melbourne, January 2007 (excerpt)   Artists Work Biography Exhibition History Resume View All Work Refine Search