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Joshua (Shuky) Borkovsky, Israeli Painter, born in 1952, Israel. Since the late 1970s, Joshua Borkovsky used Islamic elements of art, calligraphy and architecture in his works. In "Pilgrimage" (1982), for example, he created an abstract structure combines gold leaf on a Polygon canvas. Alongside religious sensibility, it shows the Influence of the Abstract American Art in his geometry structure and the use of colored surfaces. His Works from the mid-1980s made use of poetic imagery, abstract or suggestive flora and landscape. From the late 1980s he created cycles of figurative works containing images from the History of European Art. Series of paintings such as "Echo and Narcissus", "Anamorphoses" or "Vera icon" emphasize Ars-poetics elements. In 2005 Borkovsky Published an Artist-book called "The Hajj Paintings" which contained documentary photographs of Muslim-folk painting related to the pilgrimage to Mecca. Another book, called "Heterotopia: Tombs and Sheikhes graves", was published in 2006. Lives and works in Jerusalem.

Education

1973-77 Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem
1981 Hunter College, New York City, USA

Teaching

1978 Art Teachers College, Ramat Hasharon
1979 Bezalel Academy of Art, sculpture
A workshop in The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Awards And Prizes

1980 Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1990 Prize for Visual Arts, Ministry of Education and Culture
1998 George and Janet Jaffin Prize for Excellence in Plastic Arts, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2003 Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art & Design, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2005 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Education and Culture
2013 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
206 Mordechai Ish-Shalom Life Work Prize, The Artists House, Jerusalem