Shira Toren Mixed Media

Shira Toren is an American-Israeli artist. Born in Tel-Aviv, she moved to New York City to study fine art and design. Toren received her BFA from the Pratt Institute and an associate degree in art therapy from The New School. She attended classes in paintings and printmaking at the Arts Student League in New York. Toren is currently working in her studios in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York and Long Beach, California. "A Body of water such as the ocean has no color of its own but omits blue to us. I was born by the sea, but only recently was able to fully return. Spending time in California over the winter, close to the ocean, I was able to study many different shades of blue. Each day I was surprised to be greeted by an endless color field somewhere between blue and green, and other day, between blue and grey. If I sit long enough the day will end and the color will change. Notable is the surface: sparkly with horizontal noise like music notes, Often change from smooth to rough and clam again. It is coming and going in its rhythm. The ocean is vast, no deed of banks, I will go back tomorrow," says Toren.