Eve Menes

Eve Menes was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and at an early age, after the outbreak of World War II, moved with her family to Brazil and later to the United States. She grew up in New York. Eve received her B.A. in art and education at a time of great ferment in the New York art scene: The New York school of Absract Expresionism had already established itself and Pop Art and Neo-Realism were in their first stages of development. She studied art at Pratt Institute with some of the leaders of Neo-Realism, such as Philip Pearlstein, Richard Lindner and Gabriel Laderman. Later she studied with John Heliker at Columbia University.

 

Eve Menes settled in Israel in 1970. The Israeli light and landscape, so different from what she had known before, had a decisive influence on her art. She has since been living and painting in Jerusalem and now lives in Tel Aviv. She has exhibited in Israel and abroad.