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Tamara Rikman, Israeli, born 1934

Tamara Rikman was born in Tel Aviv in 1934. When she was ten years old her father died. While serving in the army, she studied architecture at the Technion at night and participated in sculpture classes as well. From 1954-1962 she lived in the United States, where she studied art in New York, Boston, and Michigan, and married her first husband Yoram Golan. In 1963 she went to live in France with her second husband, the sculptor Lew Cohen, where she studied at L'École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and studied metal casting with Chana Orloff. And she began to work with engraving. In 1964 she returned to Israel. With T. Carmi (Carmi Charney), her husband at the time, she wrote Tviyah (Prosecution) (Tarshish, 1967). And she also illustrated the book Mits Petel (Raspberry Juice) (Am Oved, 1970) by Chaya Shenhav. From 1966-1989 she lived in the Abu Tor neighborhood of Jerusalem. She currently lives in Tel Aviv.

Her early works, from the 1960s, were primarily pedagogical in nature. Her engravings from that period are primarily narrative in character. In the 1970s her work became limited, and she even began to work in steel and aluminum sculpture. In the 1980s she began to paint as well. Many of her works are of landscapes or broad spaces showing human images reduced to a series of lines and forms.

Education

1954-55 School for Social Research, New York
1954-1955 Art Students' League, New York
1958-62 Art school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
University of Michigan School of Art and Design
1962-63 Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

Teaching

1974-76 Ruskin Art School, Oxford
1979-80 visiting artist, Stanford University, California
from 1980 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, sculpture and etching
Bezalel, Jerusalem, etching
Kalisher Art School, Tel Aviv, history of art
Camera Obscura

Awards And Prizes

1955 Scholarship, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
1957 Scholarship, Art Students League of New York City, USA
1975 Jerusalem Prize in Art and Sculpture, Municipality of Jerusalem
1985 The Israel Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1989 Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1992 The Nahum Gutman Prize for Painting and Sculpture, The Histadrut Labor Federation
1993 Prize, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport