Omer Gal:
Omer is an international artist and musician, currently living in New Orleans, he has shown his work extensively in New York, San Francisco, LA, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Rome, Russia, Italy, Brazil, UK and Finland. He graduated with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Omer Gal’s art can be found in The Kim Manocherian art collection (NYC), The Singer collection (NY) & The Bernich collection (NYC) to name a few.
Along with Omer’s art comes his music, puppetry and sound work, which he incorporates into performance, ritual movement, drawing, animation and video. His theatrical musical project “Cookie Tongue” started in 2011, has performed in front of many audiences worldwide and released 4 studio albums.
His short stop motion animation works and videos have been featured at festivals worldwide. “Jupiter Rising” (2023) was featured at a number of festivals including The Coney island film fest in 2024. The stop motion animation “Fae Rite Serum” (2020) a collaborative film made with Jacquelyn Marie Shannon got accepted to three festivals worldwide, “SAP” (2014) has been exhibited in NYC, SF, London and Portland. “Shoreline” (2d animation, 2010) and “Rabbit Rabbit” (stop motion, 2009) have been shown over the past years at festivals and galleries. The three channel video installation, “Naked Cave”, was shown at Aggregate Space in Oakland, CA and at Surplus Space in Portland, OR in 2014. Recently Omer has done several commissions which include stop motion animation for Paramount Pictures, Giphy.com, Cookie Tongue, Charming Disaster, Sincere Gifts and more.
Artist Statement:
Through a twisted unstable substance matter I inquire into a fantastic sphere each time realizing it again…
When I look at a piece of art I wish to see a blast of silent noise bursting out, like a sound coming out of a cloud; and over there, there is space for a great variety of objects and things that can be continuously penetrated merely by being immersed in this amorphous atmosphere. The belief in the possibility of fulfilling this vision is both a horizontal goal and an initial motive for my creation process. The act of displaying and displacing this cloudy space is located at the center of my work.
Rough edges, presented in a childish, somewhat sloppy manner and phantasmatic characters are my key-buttons for controlling the level of pressure invested in penetrating meanings and daily structures: first, I use the general form of the object, then split and divide it again and again allowing a somewhat-new thing to rise. Will the artifice take a life of its own?, or, put differently, will it remain bound?, attached to its primitive "origin". Leaving this question open-ended initiates an endless journey which my work strives to explore.
In my art I use many kinds of mediums, from three dimensions: I combine silicone and plastic, latex, clay, paper meche and a large variety of ready-mades, In addition I include two dimensional drawings using multi-color pens, as well as non-plastic animation films sometimes integrated into painting and performance, where all these elements come to life by mixing living stories, sounds and characters.