Vita Eruhimovitz

Vita Eruhimovitz was born in Ukraine, grew up in Israel, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Vita’s background in science and technology inspire and inform her practice. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis, the Museum of Design Holon in Israel, the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont, and the San Diego Art Institute Museum. Vita has been awarded artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, Herzliya Artist Residence, Israel, Trestle Art Space, NYC, Playa, OR, and more. Her recent curatorial projects include Sense of Place, at Wonzimer Gallery, and Sending Love, at Keystone Gallery in LA.

Eruhmovitz is interested in how scale and form trigger bodily sensations and how painted bodies and paint-as-a-body coexist in one space. Biological life and consciousness have a central place in my work. Through painting, she explores her mind, navigates languages, non-conceptual states of being, the creative instinct, and destructive energy as a device to comprehend and unify all of these.

This work is inspired by motherhood and womanhood, her scientific background, and a passion for "nature" and natural history. It is shaped by Eruhmovitz's tri-lingual and tri-cultural personal history, ecological anxiety, immigration, locality and globality, nomadic instinct, and a life-long search for a home. Her recent paintings reflect a reconciliation with the sense of living on perpetually shifting grounds and the pursuit of home within her own mind.