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Using sophisticated technology to generate photo-based imagery, artist Victor Raphael embellishes images of stars, novas and galaxies to produce work at the intersection of the scientific and the spiritual.
Raphael's Polaroid-based artwork has been exhibited internationally and can be found in such collections as the Bibliothèque National de France, the Skirball Museum and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. He has been the recipient of three grants from the Polaroid Corporation. His work was included in the 50th anniversary exhibit “Polaroid 50: Art & Technology” and in “American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection.”
In addition to his artmaking, over the past 10 years Raphael has curated over 40 exhibitions for the Platt/Borstein Galleries at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.
Curator Ruth Weisberg, dean of the USC School of Fine Arts, writes, "Raphael has carved out a unique and important aesthetic territory that encompasses the exploration of cosmic spaces and the human response to this mystery and immensity. Light, space and time have been continual themes in his work, which is inspired by the study of the Kaballah. The viewer is pulled into deep space, and at the same time is invited to contemplate a spirituality based on aspects of the infinite. As in the teachings of Jewish mysticism, we are invited to a new glimpse of eternity."
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