Painting machine

Guy Shoham's practice is constantly evolving: elements change, develop and reappear in new forms and contexts. His is a personal quest which examines the craft of painting and the medium's place in the world of art. It raises questions about the dichotomies between beauty and temptation, high and low art, abstraction and realism, kitsch and modernism - and seeks to blur these boundaries. His family's timber yard was an exciting place in which to hide and play, and Shoham's childhood memories are scattered with sawdust and towering stacks of plywood sheets. In 2003 a fire destroyed the business along with souvenirs and documents from the past 70 years.These remembrances and events are manifest in Shoham's work in ways formal and metaphoric.