CA Mission, 2011 / Reinforced Fiberglass, Steel, Urethane Paint
H18 ft x L 14ft x 6 in
"Millennium Tower"" Public Art Commission (San Francisco, CA)
Media
Artist Biography
Yoram Wolberger uses childhood toys and everyday domestic items to create his large scale sculptures, foregrounding the latent symbolism and cultural paradigms of these objects that so subtly inform Western culture. By enlarging this ephemera to life size, Wolberger emphasizes the distortions of their original manufacture disallowing any real illusion and conceptually forcing the viewer to reconsider their meanings. When enlarged beyond any possibility of dismissal, we see that toy soldiers create lines between Us and Them, plastic cowboys and Indians marginalize and stereotype the Other, even wedding cake bride and groom figurines dictate our expected gender roles.
Wolberger (b. 1963, Tel Aviv, Israel) earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute's (CA) New Genres Department. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has been featured in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), deCordova Sculpture Park (MA), the Aldrich Contemporary Museum (CT), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL) and the Israeli Museum of Modern Art (Israel) among others. His works have been acquired for the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA) and the Orange County Museum of Art (CA). The artist lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
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Exhibitions
Selected Press
Daily Herald - Y Museum plays host to hereos and monsters
Fox13 News Salt Lake City - Art Exhibit investigates modern heroes, monsters
Home&Design - CA Mission
North Adams - MoCA Kidspace Exhibit
Haute Living - Millennium tower Unveils Exclusive Art For Public Viewing
Boum!Bang! - Yoram Wolberger
Cool Hunting - Yoram Wolberger Debuts His First Public Installation in a San-Francisco High-Rise
War and the Visceral - Toy Soldiers Revisited
The Morning News - Cosa Nostalgia
The Huffington Post - Artist Spotlight: Yoram Wolberger's "Cowboys and Indians"
ArtInfo - The Weekly Ten
Yoram Wolberger : Cowboys and Indians - In conjunction with Benrimon Contemporary solo exhibit
Yoram Wolberger : E-Catalogue 3 - Ballpark
Yoram Wolberger : E-Catalogue 1 - Cowboys and Indians
Yoram Wolberger : E-Catalogue 2 - Trophies
The Delighted Observationist - Exhibition Review: the Brooklyn's American Identities and Native Representation
San Diego Union-Tribune - Branching Out
Art 21 Blog - Farm Girl in the Brooklyn Museum
The New York Times - ART REVIEW; Visions of Native Americans in Today's World
The New York Times - A Pile of Blankets, With Personal History Woven Into the Fabric
Sacramento Bee - Out of the ordinary
San Francisco Weekly - Bombs Away
Boston Herald - 'Overt' forces look at aggression
Art Journal - Fantasy and force: a brief consideration of artists and war in the American Century
OC Metro - Provacative Summer Shows
SF Gate - Casentini's rectangles tease the eye
SF Gate - Pleasures in rich pools of color
San Francisco Chronicle - Rooms With A View
San Jose Museum of Art - Domestic Odyssey