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Realized Art by Effi
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ef4art · 11 days ago
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“Self-Portrait in My Father’s Shadow”—a mixed media piece (47 x 36 x 35 in) reflecting on my father’s legacy. Two joined canvases, peeled and cut, reveal childhood memories through photo transfers and 3D elements, capturing mentorship, love, and loss. Swipe to see the details and share your thoughts! 🖼️💭
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ef4art · 22 days ago
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This is the finished artwork and now titled “MOUNTING FRUSTRATIONS”. Where ordinary objects transform into a visual story of aspiration and frustration.
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ef4art · 26 days ago
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Almost there! ✏️ Just a few more touches, but now, another challenge: finding the perfect title.
I'm searching for something that conveys the meanings embedded in the painting: obsession, frustration, the agony of defeat, the games we play, broken dreams, and failed attempts... I want the title to capture the tangled web of those emotions. I have a few ideas.
What comes to mind for you when you see this? Any title suggestions?
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ef4art · 1 month ago
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✨ A quick glimpse into my solo exhibition, “Things Are Not What They Seem,” that opened today featuring some of my latest artworks. ✨ On view until May 11 at SYJCC 74 Hauppauge Rd. in Commack, NY
This collection showcases an innovative use of materials and evolving forms, uncovering untold stories and deeper layers of meaning. Through themes of displacement, hidden violence, and the fragile resilience of hope and home, the works are inspired by current events, and the silent truths we often overlook.
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ef4art · 3 months ago
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A new painting, “Multiverse of a Homeland”, a mixed-media triptych that brings together past, present, and imagined futures. These three canvases, revealing both their front and back, weave a layered narrative of memory, history and future. The painting reflects the tension between beauty and conflict, fears and hopes and the multiverse of possibilities for a homeland.
Mixed media on canvas
25 x 60 x 5 inches
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ef4art · 3 months ago
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“The Drums of War March On” examining the layers of meaning, symbolism, and the connotations carried by an animate object. The weight of history, in the present and future. This two-panel artwork blends 2D and 3D elements on both the front and back of joined canvases, offering a dynamic experience where both sides can be viewed simultaneously. Part of a series that uncovers hidden narratives in everyday objects. Examining layers of meaning, symbolism and the heavy connotations carried by an animate object. A journey through perspectives of layered storytelling, the piece invites viewers to explore the sediments and implications inherent in an everyday object.
2025, Mixed media on canvas 24 x 36 x 3.5 inches
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ef4art · 3 months ago
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📞No One Is On the Line 📞explores unsettling layers beneath the facades of seemingly ordinary objects. The artwork merges 2D and 3D elements across joined canvases, fracturing both viewer perspective and narrative. The piece positions two telephones in dialogue ☎️: a child’s toy phone on the canvas back transforms into a Cold War hotline phone on the front canvas. The red phone’s receiver hangs off-hook, its ringer bulb emanating waves that evoke cartoon motion and Morse code SOS signals (…—…). The cartoon-like colors and style of the painting stand in stark contrast to the weight of their metaphoric message.
The composition weaves a trefoil - the radiation warning symbol - into its structure, linking the childhood innocence of the toy phone with nuclear threat. The work’s construction across multiple canvas surfaces creates spatial breaks that mirror the disrupted communication of the unanswered phones and the unheard threat hanging in the air.
🎨 What does it say to you?
2025 Acrylic on canvas
38 x 24 x 7 inches
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ef4art · 4 months ago
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Santa Clause and Hanukkah Harry wishing you HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Got some used bowling pins from a local bowling alley that is having a decorating competition. Enjoyed this so much!
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ef4art · 8 months ago
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Exploring the fusion of creation and destruction, "Blowing Up Their Cover Stories" 💥 is a modular triptych featuring a hand grenade, pomegranate, and pineapple. The artwork highlights the surprising visual and linguistic connections between these objects, from an exploding pineapple to a bruised pomegranate. The integration of 2D and 3D elements, including a WWII Mk 2 "Pineapple" grenade replica, breaks traditional painting boundaries. This piece unveils hidden truths, capturing the evolution of ideas from sketch to final form, and challenges the balance between beauty and violence. 
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ef4art · 9 months ago
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“Pietà of the Lost” 🎗️is a 5.6-foot floor-standing, three-dimensional hybrid sculptural painting that I made last year. I usually don’t revisit older artworks, but I wasn’t happy with this so I continued to work on it. This updated version has also taken on added meaning since last year. I dedicate it to the hostages, their families, the missing and the empty spaces left behind.
Inspired by Michelangelo’s Pietà, this piece differs from the original by depicting the seated grieving woman with empty hands, holding no body. Symbolizing the missing, the lost, and the never forgotten, conveying a profound sense of loss and emptiness the loss of the physical presence of loved ones and the longing for their return.
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ef4art · 9 months ago
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“Blow Over and Over” is a part of a series exploring the surprising connection between hand grenades and pomegranates. The term “hand grenade” derives from the French “pomme grenade” (apple with seeds), highlighting the coexistence of beauty and destruction. The resemblance of the pomegranate inspired the naming of the weapon in many languages.
This artwork embraces imperfection and impermanence, showcasing the beauty found in its evolving state. Moments of creation and the transition from 2D to 3D (and vice versa) are captured in this diptych. It features pomegranates with seeds bursting forth like sparks from a detonation in progress. At the bottom of the canvas, a 3D toy hand grenade, the culprit and inspiration, is caught between branches. Its safety pin is held precariously by a twig, hinting at the tension and fragility of the scene.
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ef4art · 9 months ago
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Highlights from my solo exhibition'REVELATIONS’ at the Patchogue Arts Council • MoCA L.I. Museum of Contemporary Art Satellite 📡 Gallery. May 28 - August 31, 2024
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ef4art · 9 months ago
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"Blown Away by a Namesake"
Another painting in the series on hand grenades, in this one exploring the surprising link to pomegranates. Did you know that hand 'grenade' comes from 'pomme grenade,' meaning 'apple with seeds' in French. In many languages, both the fruit and the weapon bear the same name. This and the other dualities in the painting invites reflection on the potential for beauty and destruction to coexist ➡️
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ef4art · 10 months ago
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New series in progress! Exploring the duality of the hand grenade: weapon & fruit.
The first one is inspired by the World War II Mk 2 , the "Pineapple" grenade. The painting showcases dual narratives and a collision of creation and destruction. A blown up image of an intact whole pineapple and a blown apart fragment one.
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ef4art · 11 months ago
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️ "Searching for Peace of Mind" - This new piece explores the dichotomy of hope and conflict through a split canvas, featuring a dove, raven entangled in olive branches. 36x36xx5.5 inches.
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ef4art · 1 year ago
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Temporary title “WAR GAMES". Suggestions welcome! Other titles I was considering are "Toy Soldiers", "Not Child's Play", “Soldier On", “Maneuvers".
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ef4art · 1 year ago
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“THORNY ISSUES” - A multi-dimensional painting exploring dualities, ambiguities, transformations, and the fears and threats of the unknown - real or imagined. 
30 x 55 x 2.5 inches
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