Yona Verwer
Dutch-born Yona Verwer received her Masters in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Her recent paintings and photographs feature mystical Jewish imagery as well as amulet shaped objects and amulet portraits. Her "Kabbala of Bling" series commented on the appropriation of Kabbala by pop icons. Her “City Charms” amulet photographs invoke protection from acts of destruction on buildings, particularly terror-watch-list targets.
Verwer continues this theme in "Temple Talismans"; these apotropaic images aim to protect synagogues against attacks and to bring good luck.
Featured in solo shows in the Netherlands and New York, her work has also appeared in venues such as the Andy Warhol Factory, the Bronx Museum, NY, the Center for Jewish History in New York, the Allentown Art Museum, PA, and the Port of History Museum in Philadelphia.
She completed residencies at the PS 122 Studio Program, the Makor Center and the Skirball Center in NYC.
Her mural work includes a large-scale installation at the SAR High School, Riverdale, NY, at the Center for Jewish Discovery in NYC, and at the Chabad Center of NW New Jersey.
She has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Daily News, the Forward, the Jewish Week and the Jewish Press.
She is the president & co-founder of the Jewish Art Salon in NYC.
Copyright Y. Verwer 2000-2010. All rights reserved.
Temple Talismans The Kabbala of Bling Murals Urim & Tumim
Paintings, Murals & Photography