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Naomi Livia formerly known as Naomi Ben-Shahar, is a photographer working with analog photography, video, and craft.
Career
[edit]In 1993 Livia earned an MFA from Hunter College in New York.[1]
Working as Naomi Ben-Shahar, Feature, Inc. presented a solo show of her photographs in 1997.[2]
In a 2000 New York Times review of Hairy Forearm, a group exhibition at Feature Inc, art critic Holland Cotter described Ben-Shahar and photographer Gavin Wilson as moving in "logical and interesting directions".[3]
World Views
[edit]In 2001, Ben-Shahar participated in World Views, an artist residency organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at the World Trade Center.[4]
During the residency, she created Floating Inside Out (WTC), a video of a gathering on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. The nighttime recording used the lights of New York and the movements of participants wearing headlamps inside the darkened space.[5][6]
Following the September 11 attacks, works made by World Views artists during the residency were presented at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. In December 2001, the New York Times reviewed Ben-Shahar’s video with Holland Cotter describing the piece as "straightforward but visionary".[5]
Stephanie Cash wrote about the project in the March 2002 issue of Art in America. Featuring a spread with a still image from Floating Inside Out (WTC), she detailed the artist covering the World Trade Center space with reflective mylar, and the relationship between the moving lights worn by the participants and the nighttime cityscape outside.[6]
The New Yorker, reviewing the World Views exhibition, singled out Ben-Shahar's film projection and described its flickering lights against the Manhattan skyline.[7]
Photography and Weaving
[edit]More recent shows by Livia combine analog photography with handmade weaving. In 2023, Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York presented Livia's solo exhibition Femina Luminous, as part of its first Mid-Career Initiative.[8]
A two-person exhibition in 2024 titled "Cosmologies, Movements, and Proclamations for Peace," curated by Max Warsh at the Yeh Art gallery of St. John's University, paired the artist's collages with video works by artist Miriam Parker.[9]
In 2026, Livia presented Desert Weave in Bridgehampton, New York.[10] In Dovetail, Kate Mothes wrote about Livia's perspective-bending convergence of photography and weaving, questioning the medium of photography in relation to landscape, craft, technology, intimacy, and eco-feminism.[11]
In Whitehot Magazine, Carlota Gamboa examined what she termed Livia's "photo-weaves", describing weaving as a means of changing how the photograph is encountered, tracing photography, video and weaving in relation to materiality, craft, sustainability and feminist practice.[1]
Selected exhibitions
[edit]- Naomi Ben-Shahar: Photography, Feature Inc., New York, 1997[2]
- World Views, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2001–2002[5]
- Femina Luminous, Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, New York, 2023[8]
- Cosmologies, Movements, and Proclamations for Peace, Naomi Ben-Shahar and Miriam Parker, curated by Max Warsh, Yeh Art Gallery, St. John's University, New York, NY, 2024[9]
- Desert Weave, Exhibition The Barn, Bridgehampton, New York, 2026[10]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Gamboa, Carlota (4 August 2026). "Naomi Livia's Embodied Photo-Weaves". Whitehot Magazine. Retrieved 22 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Previous Exhibitions: 1997". Feature Inc. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- ↑ Cotter, Holland (21 January 2000). "ART REVIEW; Surging Into Chelsea". The New York Times.
- ↑ "2002 Presentations". Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. Retrieved 22 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 Cotter, Holland (3 December 2001). "The Studios Were Lost, But the Artists Get Their Day". The New York Times.
- 1 2 Cash, Stephanie (March 2002). "Studios in the Sky". Art in America.
- ↑ "World Views". The New Yorker. 24–31 December 2001.
- 1 2 "Femina Luminous". Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York. 2023. Retrieved 22 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Cosmologies, Movements, and Proclamations for Peace". Yeh Art Gallery, St. John's University. 2024. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Naomi Livia: Desert Weave, June 2026". Frampton Co. 2026. Retrieved 22 September 2026.
- ↑ Mothes, Kate (13 July 2026). "Naomi Livia's perspective-bending convergence of weaving and photography". Dovetail. Retrieved 22 September 2026.
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