Avital Burg (b. Jerusalem, Israel; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) creates self-reflective still-life and portrait paintings rooted in her deep connection to the natural world. In recent years, she has focused on crafting highly textured works that feature everyday imagery, particularly wildflowers gathered from the edges of her Brooklyn neighborhood. Her paintings emerge from a slow, labor-intensive process, often involving prolonged, direct observation of her subjects. Time is a central theme in her work, as her botanical subjects undergo natural decay during the rendering process, encapsulating the passage of time within a static picture plane.
Avital attended the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem; the Hatahana School of Figurative Drawing and Painting, Tel Aviv; the Slade School of Art, London; and the New York Studio School. Her solo exhibitions include Browse & Darby in association with Crean and Company, London, UK; Pamela Salisbury Gallery, New York, NY; Slag Gallery, New York, NY; and Neve Schechter Gallery, Tel Aviv, ISR. Her work was also part of two-person exhibitions at Arts at AJU, Los Angeles, CA, and Club Cultural Matienzo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was the May 2022 artist in residence at the Interlude Residency in NY, and at the Peleh Residency in California in 2019.