ARTIST GALI ROTSTEIN'S LATEST COLLECTION, REQUIEM FOR A HOUSEWIFE, EXPRESSES FEELINGS & DESIRES OF A MODERN DAY HOUSEWIFE

Artist Gali Rotstein's latest collection, REQUIEM FOR A HOUSEWIFE, explores the unexpressed feeling and desires of the modern day housewife why do women still hate the term? Why is it so cloaked in terms like Stay-at-Home Mom� or “Primary Care Giver� What does the word really mean? These and other questions are examined in Gali’s REQUIEM FOR A HOUSEWIFE, which was recently featured as part of a special design make-over by Interior Designer Leslie Sachs of Breathing Room Design, on the television show EXTRA.

Collectors include: Political Entertainment Consultant, Andy Spahn; Children’s Action Network Executive Director, Jennifer Perry; The Gersh Agency Partner, Richard Arlook; Paradigm Agency’s Head of TV Talent, Alisa Adler; Actors Harris Yulin and Jeffrey Jones; and Susan Landau, formerly of the Krieger/Landau Gallery.

Gali Rotstein’s art goes against the creed of “less is more.� She chooses to use multiple sources of light and perspectives to create three-dimensional multi-layered, sculpture-like paintings. “My heaven is in the junkyard and hardware store,� says Gali.

Expressing herself through drawing, painting, photography, and assemblage from her findings of discarded objects, she incorporates natural elements such as twigs and moss, as well as ordinary man-made objects, and wires and light bulbs, to present her whimsical and often humorous viewpoints.

Surrounded by the works of such influential contemporary artists as Nathan Oliveira, Elmer Bischoff, Wayne Thiebaud, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, David Park, Selden Gile, Christo, Richard Diebenkorn, and Anselm Kiefer — collected by her father, Naftali Zisman, her creative influences, as a child were significant. Family friends included Israeli artists Raffi Kaiser, Menachem Gueffen and Menashe Kadishman who were also instrumental in her early appreciation of art.

It wasn’t until after running three successful start-up businesses, writing a children’s book series, overcoming a serious illness and experiencing a life-defining moment that she finally came to terms with her untapped childhood passion and decided to become contemporary artist.

In one short year after moving into a studio, she created and completed her first series, HOME. Debuting at the Santa Monica Fine Art Studios Open House in November 2005, her collection sold seven pieces, (half the show) in one night — a coup for a totally unknown artist.

Through Gali’s latest series, REQUIEM FOR A HOUSEWIFE, she is waging war on the word and all that it implies; which, in practical terms, and despite her successful ventures in business and other artistic endeavors, she feels she is.

Currently she is working on her next collection, Planet SOS, which deals with the current “crisis� atmosphere in the United States. This body of work again includes sculptures and three-dimensional paintings.