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A new episode of Artport on Air - this time with Alexandra Zuckerman 🎧 @alexazuckerman Alexandra speaks about the year she spent learning to operate a loom - and about how the search for color, composition, and the meeting point between shades led her back to drawing, and from there to the large winding works now on view in Nonfinito. Vardit Gross talks with her about the attempt to turn thread into painting, the moment when a single work shifts an entire direction, and the quiet intimacy that exists between thread, memory, and the body 🎙️✨ Listen to the full episode > in our bio ~ by @alexazuckerman
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Ten days to go until NonFinito closes, and it is the perfect moment to pause on one of the material languages that has evolved here over the past year. This week, the spotlight turns to Alexandra Zuckerman ✨ @alexazuckerman Throughout her residency year, a loom stood in Zuckerman’s studio at Artport – a tool that opened up a new field of investigation for her. After years of working with color, with its heat, texture, and radiance, her recent works are built from the thread itself: a thread that holds the color within it, one that cannot be mixed, only stretched, pulled, and handled with patient precision. The meticulous planning required for arranging the vertical warp threads before weaving – those linear grids that prepare the structure for the horizontal weft – gave rise to a new body of work rooted in exact manual movement. Threads coil around a wooden board whose dimensions echo the span of the artist’s outstretched arms. Wound, compressed, and knotted together, they gradually form something close to one long, continuous thread. Each strand responds to the one above it, balancing itself with the surrounding colors. The blending of hues emerges not from a brush, but from proximity. Zuckerman’s practice is deeply rooted in the language of painting and drawing, unfolding through series of works that function as independent cosmos. Each series seeks to articulate its own visual language, formed through an ongoing dialogue with the history of visual art. Although the works often begin within the field of drawing and painting, they are informed by other techniques and crafts – weaving, knitting, textiles, ceramics, wallpaper, stencils, animation, and illustration. NonFinito closes on Saturday, December 20 - don’t miss it! More about Alexandra >>> in bio ~ 📸 Profile picture: @imogen__eli 📸 Photos: @eladsarigphotographer (images 1&2) and @talnisim79 (images 3&4) by @alexazuckerman
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Back and Forth (17) on view @artportlv. Cotton threads on plywood, 110x 80 cm photo: @talnisim79 🟥▪️◼️🟫🟧 #alexandrazuckerman by @alexazuckerman
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Back and Forth (16), on view @artportlv Cotton yarn on plywood 110 x 80 cm. Photo: Tal Nissim #alexandrazuckerman #weaving by @alexazuckerman
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Back and Forth (15), 2025. Cotton yarn on wood panel, 110x80 cm. @artportlv #nonfinito #alexandrazuckerman photo: @eladsarigphotographer by @alexazuckerman
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Alexandra Zuckerman at SABOT, Cluj-Napoca “Back and Forth” August 21 – October 11, 2025 Photos: YAP Studio, all images courtesy of the artist and SABOT @sabot_gallery @alexazuckerman taken in Cluj-Napoca by @alexazuckerman
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Back and Forth, 2025. Cotton threads on plywood, 80 x 110 cm #alexandrazuckerman @sabot_gallery on view until October 11th 📯 by @alexazuckerman
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BACK AND FORTH, 2025. Cotton yarn on wood, 80*110 cm. On view @sabot_gallery until October 11. 🧶🧶 photo: @eladsarigphotographer Special thanks to @artiscontemporary for supporting this project by @alexazuckerman
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BACK AND FORTH 2025. Cotton threads on wood 80x110 cm. On view at @sabot_gallery until October 11. Photo: @eladsarigphotographer Thanks to @artiscontemporary #alexandrazuckerman #sabot #weaving by @alexazuckerman
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New series of works BACK AND FORTH on view tonight at @sabot_gallery, Cluj-Napoca. Thank you so much @artiscontemporary and @artportlv for supporting this project and making it happen. 🧶🧶🧶🧶Cotton threads on wood panel 110x80 cm. by @alexazuckerman
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ALEXANDRA ZUCKERMAN Back and Forth August 21 - October 11, 2025 Opening Thursday, August 21, 7PM In “Back and Forth,” Zuckerman dramatically scales up this tradition of the weaver’s sketch: making mesmerizing stripe paintings without paint, and weaving lush textiles without the loom. In a painstaking process, the artist unravels, cuts, re-winds, compresses, and knots together each string of yarn to compose spellbinding atmospheres of horizontal stripes. She uses around 1.5 kilometers of yarn per composition, and the final work of art is a spool of its own: progressing from top to bottom as a single, continuous thread. As with weaving, the work is wrapped sequentially – no returns possible – held taut with the help of a warping board. Under Zuckerman’s careful laboring, the physical properties of the yarn are deferred for a moment, in order to foreground pure opticality. The vibrating color relationships perform the push and pull of an expressionist painting. Colors added for contrast later become essential for balance; a singular, improvisational gesture transforms into a compositional anchor. But this abstraction is, above all else, felt. Grounded in images: memories of specific pieces of clothing. Fashion trends of the 1970s and 1980s. The sleekness of digital technologies, or the vibrating wobbliness of analog precursors. Reflections on water, the tranquility of the sea and the appearance of the horizon. [excerpt from Levi Prombaum's exhibition text ° @leviprom] °°° This exhibition has been made possible through the generous support of @artiscontemporary. by @alexazuckerman
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HAIM 11, pencils on paper. Final weekend 🪬#alexandrazuckerman 🪬#nogagalleryofcontemporaryart by @alexazuckerman
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