YORAM WOLBERGER
Thank You (Poppy), 2023
Fiberglass Composite and Ink
60 × 63 × 5 in / 152.4 × 160 × 12.7 cm
Editions 1-5 of 5 + 2AP
TROPHY #2 (Baseball), 2017 /Cast stainless steel / 78 × 36 × 36 in
Toy Soldier #5 (Prone Position) / 3D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, Reinforced Fiberglass Composite, Urethane / 18 x 102 x 36 inches / 3 plus 2 A/P / (image is of artist mock up)
*requires ample fabrication time*
Standing Chief (Shield), 2016 / 3D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, Reinforced Fiberglass Composite, Urethane / Approximate dimensions: 84 x 60 x 24 inches / Edition: 3 + 2 A/Ps
Soldier Portrait #2, 2016 / Cast Resin / 20 x 10 x 10 inches / Edition 5/5 + 2AP
RedGunBlueGun (36 piece installation), 2014 / resin cast (36 pieces) / 54 x 84 x 1.5 inches / Edition 1/5 + 2AP
Calf, 2004 / cast plastic and polyester foam, edition of 6 / 36 x 13 x 15 inches
White Bunny #2, 2004 / cast plastic / 8 x 24 x 5 inches (20.3 x 61 x 12.7 cm) / Edition 4/6 and 6/6 available
Lamb, 2004 / cast plastic / 23 x 5.5 x 14 inches (58.4 x 14 x 35.6 cm) / Edition 5/6 and 6/6 available
Sheep, 2004 / cast plastic and polyester foam, edition of 6 / 30 x 12 x 15 inches
Toy Soldier #4 (Offhand Position) / 3D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, Reinforced Fiberglass Composite, Urethane / 72 x 60 x 24 inches / Edition of 3 plus 2 A/P
*requires ample fabrication time*
Blue Cowboy #2 (Rifleman), 2008 / reinforced cast fiberglass composite and pigmented resin / 75 x 60 x 22 inches / edition of 3 + 2 APs
*requires fabrication time*
Portrait 1, 2015 / resin cast / 31 x 16 x 16 inches / Edition of 5 + 2AP
Trophy (Baseball #2) / Stainless steel / aprox. 84 x 43 x 29 inches / edition of 3 + 2 APs *requires ample fabrication time*
Red Indian #3 (Tomahawk), 2008 / reinforced cast fiberglass composite and pigmented resin / 75 x 60 x 22 inches / edition of 3 + 2 APs
*requires ample fabrication time*
Trophy (Baseball #1), 2008 / Cast and polished stainless steel / 78 x 36 x 36 inches / edition of 3 + 2 APs
Yoram Wolberger uses childhood toys and everyday domestic items to create his large scale sculptures, foregrounding the latent symbolism and cultural paradigms of these objects that so subtly inform Western culture. By enlarging this ephemera to life size, Wolberger emphasizes the distortions of their original manufacture disallowing any real illusion and conceptually forcing the viewer to reconsider their meanings. When enlarged beyond any possibility of dismissal, we see that toy soldiers create lines between Us and Them, plastic cowboys and Indians marginalize and stereotype the Other, even wedding cake bride and groom figurines dictate our expected gender roles.
Wolberger (b. 1963, Tel Aviv, Israel) earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute's (CA) New Genres Department. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has been featured in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), deCordova Sculpture Park (MA), the Aldrich Contemporary Museum (CT), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL) and the Israeli Museum of Modern Art (Israel) among others. His works have been acquired for the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), the Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside (CA) and the McNay Art Museum (TX). The artist lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
