couple | 2019
photo Noam Elyashiv
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel
Noam Elyashiv is a studio artist and a contemporary Jeweler whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Through the composition of form-related work, she explores interactions among line, plane, and form. She has BFA degree from Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, and MFA degree from Rhode Island School of Design where she has been teaching since 1994. She is a two-time recipient of the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts (RISCA) Fellowship, and the America Israel Cultural Foundation Award. She served on RISCA jury committees, was a guest speaker for Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) and is a former resident artist at Mass MoCA, where she created sculptural objects and work on paper. Her work is in private and public collections, including the MFA Boston and the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, Germany. Noam’s body of work Conversation, centers on the transitional steps between drawing and creating objects that reside on the body, and the gradual changes that occur in response to relocation, gravity and function, as a drawing emerges into a dimensional space. In her Time Lines series, Noam deconstructed previously made objects to their original state, which she then utilized to create new ones. The pieces’ bodies and surfaces carry the objects’ history in subtle details. The work invites the viewers to stay longer and look closely to discover its nuanced history. Noam strives to reduce the physicality of objects into their primary essence. She regards space as a tangible substance in her work, with lines, planes and forms existing to hold and define it.