Naomi Nevo Ben Ari

Backyard Pot

Oil on paper

"My work draws from observing living environments. Most often, oil paint is my preferred medium, experimenting with surfaces to paint on, but sometimes that leads to working with materials in three dimensions as well. The environments I observe range from urban to natural, deserted or occupied, large or small. What they have in common has to do with the visibility of the life cycle: growth, decline, death, struggle, or resilience are present and visible."

— Naomi Nevo Ben Ari

About the artist

Naomi Nevo Ben Ari

Naomi Nevo Ben Ari is an Israeli-born, Connecticut-based artist. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as The Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, and Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven. As a finalist in the 2019 AXA Art Prize exhibition, her work was also shown in San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, and New York Academy of Art, New York City. Nevo Ben Ari has been featured in Artscope and The Connecticut Landscape Architect, and is the recipient of Art Show International’s Still Life Merit Prize, and a recipient of the Jeffrey A. Shoham Purchase prize at the University of Hartford. She received a BLA from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and a BFA from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. Nevo Ben Ari teaches art at the New England Jewish Academy.