Ron Zohar

Artist Statement

A multidisciplinary sculptress working at the intersection of the human, the animal, and the natural world — interrogating the boundaries we construct between them. Her practice moves between sculpture and photography, grounded in a sustained inquiry into the body as material and material as body.

Working in terracotta, fiberglass, and bronze — materials weighted with archaic memory — Zohar addresses questions of identity, birth, motherhood, and creative force. Creation, for her, is a condition of existence rather than an aesthetic proposition: an examination of the tension between culture and instinct, refinement and impulse, sovereignty and surrender.

The figures she sculpts occupy the threshold between human and animal, between fragility and resolve — composing a space in which emotion and matter converge into a single, coherent statement.

Art, in her view, is a means of making visible the subterranean strata of human experience — those that resist articulation yet persist in the body, in memory, in consciousness. Through an encounter with the work, the viewer is invited to reconsider notions of nature, identity, and belonging, and to reflect on the irreducible relationship between creation and life itself.

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