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Gideon Efrat, Gideon Efrat’s Archives: ‘What drives Orit Hofshi ?’, October 2025 [Heb]

Hofshi creates in contemplative abstract contexts of “Time”, “Inquiry”, “Reflection” …and “Ominous political realities” …

The Jerusalem Post: ‘The Medium and the Message: Six Centuries of Printmaking’, September 2025

A significant aspect of the exhibition is its focus on female artists, such as Kathe Kollwitz, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, and Orit Hofshi. Their works ... highlight the evolving role of women in the art world and their impact on the medium of printmaking.

Neria Barr, The Jerusalem Post: ‘A temple of art, resilience, and renewal’ 

The Medium and the Message: Six Centuries of Printmaking...from Dürer, Rembrandt, and Goya to Picasso and Warhol...a special focus on female artists such as Käthe Kollwitz, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, and Orit Hofshi

Karen Wilkin, The Wall Street Journal: ‘The Best Art of 2024: Emphasis on Italy’ 

A gallery of contemporary artists … all responding to the mood and affect of the German works on view…

Gilad Melzer, “Amidst the Emotional and brute Chaos”

Galeria, Haaretz, December 2024

Karen Wilkin, The Wall Street Journal: ‘The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy’ Review: Decades of Disquiet,

April 2024

Ms. Hofshi confronts us with an enormous multi-panel work dealing with migration and displacement... 

 

Angelica Aboulhosn, ARTFORUM Critic's Pick: The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, April 2024

The disorienting picture anticipates Orit Hofshi’s woodcut Time… thou ceaseless lackey to eternity, the show’s jolting denouement...

 

Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post: German expressionists mined the anxiety of war — and the vibrancy of life, March 2024

The largest is Israeli artist Orit Hofshi’s print, rubbing and drawing of figures in barren terrain, suggesting a postwar landscape...

 

Ralf Borchard, BR24, Expressionismus - Ausstellung: Deutsche Angst in den USA, February 2024

Konfrontation mit Gegenwart

 

National Gallery, Art & Society: What is German Expressionism? 8 Things to Know, February 2024

Today, we find ourselves in a world that echoes the turbulence of the early 20th century. Artists like Orit Hofshi

Alice Gauvin: Early Optimism Yields to Undiluted Draughts of Anguish in National Gallery’s Exploration of German Expressionism’s Legacy, February 2024

Orit Hofshi’s “Time…thou ceaseless lackey to eternity” (2017) deserves special attention for its craftsmanship

 

German Expressionism’s Response to Changing World Explored in National Gallery of Art Exhibition, September 2023

Shelley Langdale, curator and head of modern and contemporary prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art Announces Victoria P. Sant Fund for Women Artists, October 2022

Prints and Drawings: Israeli artist Orit Hofshi's Time… thou ceaseless lackey to eternity, one of her largest polyptychs

 

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Acquisition: Orit Hofshi, April 2022

Time...thou ceaseless lackey to eternity, 2017

National Review, By BRIAN T. ALLEN, International Fine Print Dealers Association, May 2021
The Fine Art Print Fair Delivers Old And New Beauties

Cate McQuaid, Art Blossoms into ‘Paradise’ at Cade Tompkins Projects, The Boston Globe, March 2021

'Paradise' at Cade Tompkins Project

Sarah Kirk Hanley, Orit Hofshi: Deep Time, Art In Print Magazine, from Volume 9 #4, November-December 2019

Orit Hofshi: Deep Time, Sarah Kirk Hanley

The Center for Contemporary Israeli Art and Memorial, Tivon, May 2019

"Black Smoke, White Smoke", Orit Hofshi And Dror Ben Ami
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires work by Orit Hofshi, 2019

https://us3.campaign-archive.com/?e=&u=f8858a0fd39b847d9164f3633&id=d948bcf565

Hagit Peleg Rotem : interview with Orit Hofshi, March 2019

Portfolio Magazine, March 2019

Orit Hofshi & Mahmood Kaiss@ Contemporary Zemack, February 2019

https://mailchi.mp/zcagallery/oded-balilty-zemack-opening-on-thursday-dec-27-2018-at-8-pm-478145?e=1b4d7b2920

Hagay Hacohen, A Celebration of Israeli Printmaking, The Jerusalem Post, September 24, 2018

  https://www.pressreader.com/israel/the-jerusalem-post/20180925/281496457206654

Eitan Buganim

  How did Jacob Pins influence other artists, Galeria Haaretz, April 2017

East Contemporary Art

Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum: Orit Hofshi “Crossing“, April 2017

Uzi Tzur

Scratch into the black mirror, Rosenfeld Gallery, November 2016   Galeria, Haaretz

Yona Fischer

Hundred Years of Israeli Art, Discount Bank Collection, 2016

Hagit Peleg Rotem

Portfolio Magazine, June 2016

Sigal Namir

DezignZoom 2016

Kunst im Deutschen Bundestag Kein fernes Land

Künstler aus Israel im Deutschen Bundestag, 2015

Angela Levine

Changing Perspectives at the Haifa Museum of Art, Midnight East, May 2015

Abigail Crocker

Weighted woodcuts, February 2015

Tal Dekel

“רק אל תגידי ‘סבתא”‘: מגדר וזקנה בראי האמנות”,Published in cataloug: “Tough & Tender”, P8 Gallery, December 2014, Tel Aviv

Julia Villaro

“Artistas de todas partes crean aqui'”Clarin, October 2013

Orit Hofshi

“Upon this Bank and Shoal of Time”, “Print Time” Tefen Museum, September 2013

Leah Ollman

“Review: Woodcuts and more by Israeli artist Orit Hofshi at Shulamit” Los Angeles Times, June 21 2013

Scarlet Cheng

“Editorial Previews”Orit Hofshi, Shulamit Gallery, Venice CA, ArtSceneCal, June 2013

Alumni Stories

“PAFA Stories of Success, Accomplishment and Passion” Preview PAFA, Autumn 2012

Angela Levine

“Lightening up Edvard Munch- Israeli Artists Share His Space” Midnight East, August 2012

Irith Hadar

Munch show Catalogue “Exhibition covering fifty years of Edvard Munch’s prints on view at the Tel Aviv Museum” ArtDaily.com, 2012

Galya Yahav

“Encounters in Edavrd Munch’s space” Haaretz, July 2012 [In Hebrew]

Edith Newhall

“See Hofshi” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 2012

Amze Emmons

“Orit Hofshi at Locks Gallery” Printeresting.org, March 2012

Marilyn MacGregor

“Orit Hofshi’s ‘Pharos’ at Locks Gallery: A novel unfolding in her mind” Broad Street Review, March 2012

Charles Schultz

“A Matrix You Can Move In: Prints and Installation Art” Art in Print Magazine, Vol 1 Nom 3, September October 2011

Edith Newhall

“Galleries: In prints and paintings, an outlook on devastation” PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, October 2nd 2011

“Resilience”

Catalouge, 2011

Andrea Packard

Realism and Resilience in the Art of Orit Hofshi, 2011

Julien Robson

The Graphic Unconscious, “Transforming the Known into the New: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Philagrafika 2010”, © 2011 Philagrafika, Philadelphia, PA, 2011

Anne Sassoon

Jerusalem Report, “German Expressions in Galilee” , 25 April 2011

Smadar Sheffi

“When the flawed becomes exquisite” Haaretz, 16 July. 2010 [In Hebrew]

Deborah Ripley

ArtNet Magazine, “Paper Chase”, February 2010 – Image

Mara Hoberman

Critics’ Picks ArtForum Magazine, “The Graphic Unconscious”, Feb 2010

Ken Johnson

The NY Times, “What Is Printmaking Today? Philadelphia Dares to Ask”, February 2010

Faye Hirsch

MultipalesM The Open Print, Art in America Magazine, pp. 67-74, APR2010 Issue, Philagrafika

Gigi Lamm

Alumni Spotlight: Orit Hofshi returns to PAFA for Philagrafika 2010, Preview PAFA, Spring/Summer 2010

Edward Sozanski

The Inquirer, “Art: Philagrafika: Varied impressions”, February 2010

Amze Emmons

Philagrafika 2010: PAFA, printeresting, March 1st, 2010

Florence Shu

“Philagragfika 2010 ,” Artist Magazine, March 2010 pp. 176-183, Taipei, Taiwan

Printmaking Today

In Focus – Orit Hofshi, Vol 18 No.4 Winter 2009, Cello press London, UK. Page 2, Page 3, Page 4

Smadar Sheffi

Art critic – Article in Haaretz Online, October 20, 2009

Patrick T. Murphy, Curator: 'The Situations of Orit Hofshi', 2009

The warmth of the wooden panel woodblock printing and the contrast within the drawing indicate the flickering of memory itself as it grasps to recall and fix the ever-shifting details of the past…

Timna Seligman, Curator Israel Museum: 'Two Conversations with Orit Hofshi', 2009

"I attempt to observe, through these personal stories, a wider phenomena which is not necessarily private but is also public..."

Jose Roca, Curator of Contemporary Art, Philagrafika | Blog: 'Interview - Orit Hofshi', 2009

Hofshi works by hand on a very large scale, achieving monumentality while retaining an intimate quality in her prints...

Heidi J. Gleit, Editor, ERETZ Magazine: 'Carved in Wood', 2009

Hofshi creates art that transports viewers into another world, a world where questions about man’s place in the universe confront them

Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art, artblog: 'Whole lotta shaking going on at PAFA', 2009

The Philagrafika exhibit is also figurative, and we included alumna Orit Hofshi, so it gives us a sense of looking at our traditions.

Hagit Peleg-Rotem, Globes Magazine: 'Ori Hofshi - Ephemeral Passage', 2009 [Heb]

Her drawing and carving on woodblocks create cascades and ripples of motion on paper…

Jose Roca, Artistic Director, Philagrafika 2010, Art on Paper Magazine: ' Orit Hofshi', 2008

Hofshi works by hand on very large formats, achieving grandeur and monumentality while retaining an intimate quality in her depictions of landscape…

Timna Seligman, Curator, Jerusalem Israel Museum: 'The Disenchanted Forest', 2006

Orit Hofshi's work "Upon this Bank and Shoal of Time" offers us another vision suspended between reality and myth...

Uzi Tzur, Haaretz: 'Kairos - Orit Hofshi', 2006 [Heb]

In a spectacular woodcut, rocky fragments are piled like ice chips on a frozen lake, in early spring…  

Dan Miller, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine arts: 'The Woodcut: Meaning and Mission', 2004

Orit’s drawing and cutting were free, expressive and explorative from the first...

Faye Hirsch, International Print Center New York: 'Play Print', 2003

Orit Hofshi worked in the tried-and-true technique of rubbing her carved woodblocks with a spoon... 

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