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Yitzhak Greenfield was born in Brooklyn New York. He drew and painted from an

early age. He studied drawing and Sculpture at the Educational alliance Art School in

Manhattan with Abba Ostrowsky and Chaim Gross. Yitzhak made Aliya in 1951 and lived

in Kibbutz Gal-On and Ein-Hashofet. During this period he studied with Yohanan Simon,

Naftali Bezem and Perli Pelzig. In 1964 He moved with his family to Ein-Kerem Jerusalem

where his home and studio are to this day.

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Yitzhak received the Dizengoff Prize, Tel-Aviv Museum.

The Society of Jewish Art Award, Hebrew University Jerusalem.

With a scholarship from the Israel-America Culture Fund, he travelled to Italy to study

printmaking with the artist Borin, at the Il-Torchio print workshop and gallery in Venice.

Yitzhak paintings are in museums, galleries and private collections, in Israel and abroad.

His recently exhibited at the Minotaure Gallery and Gerstein Gallery in Tel-Aviv.

A New show of Yitzhak has opened at Bar-David Museum in Kibbutz Bar-Am

on January 13th 2012.

Locks and Pomegranates Photo Works:

The works in my exhibit are part of a series of recent photo prints which were inspired

by old locks, amulets, books, stone tools, fish, pomegranates, Hebrew letters and other

objects which I collected in my studio for many years.

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These objects are a personal unique history of Jerusalem.

My private geniza-assemblage.

Most of these photos were taken in my studio during the past three years

using an 18-zoom camera.

I discovered rich textures and overlapping forms bathed in magic light.

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21.1.2012 - 18.2.2012