Victor Raphael, Space Field, Digital Iris Print Muse X Large Photograph on Heavy Paper, 1996

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These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a … more These are from the 1990s printed at Muse X and never framed. they are unsigned and unnumbered but from a very small edition. they are quite beautiful.
Victor Raphael was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1950. He studied art and theater at California State University Northridge and graduated from UCLA. He has exhibited throughout the nation and abroad. In 1996, his work was among the 50 best examples of Polaroid photography included in Polaroid 50: Art and Technology, an international touring exhibition commemorating the company’s 50th anniversary. He works in a wide range of media spanning painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, and digital technology. He creates complex and beautiful images that expand conventional views of time and space. For the past three decades, Raphael has produced a unique body of work by merging traditional media such as painting, photography and printmaking with modern electronic media, including video, digital printing and interactive technologies. In addition to his central themes of the exploration of the cosmos and aspects of travel–through space or time–and their visual records, the artist has developed an important body of paintings, in which water, for instance, and its protean and timeless qualities, form an important part. His photography process of digitally manipulating NASA photographs of planets and other natural celestial phenomena into Polaroid prints, and next altering them by hand with metallic paints and gold and metal leaf.

Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1973, Magna Cum Laude
California State University, Northridge, 1968-1970

SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, From Lead Into Gold
Oregon Jewish Museum, The Heavens Spread Out Like A Prayer Shawl
Skirball Cultural Center, Illuminated Reflections: A Bill Aron and Victor Raphael Collaboration.
Cypress College, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada Collaboration: From Zero to Infinity
Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, Jean-Pierre Hebert & Victor Raphael: Illuminated Collaboration
Cypress College, Paris Polaroids: Art In The City Of Lights
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space
(20-year survey with catalogue)
Santa Monica College, Space Fields, Abstractions and Jackson Pollock 1980-1991 (catalogue)
Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, The Space Field Series
Azurite Exhibitions, Los Angeles, Paintings, Drawings and Photocollages 1978-1981

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
LAX World Airport/Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Out of this World
MASS MoCA, An Exchange with Sol LeWitt (catalogue)
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics/UCSB, SciArt 2011
Finegood Gallery, Jewish Ritual: Rethinking, Renewed
Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, Memory and Transformation
Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City, La Estampa de Self Help Graphics
Alinari National Museum of Photography, Florence, Italy,
Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (catalogue)
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, American Perspectives
Jewish Museum, San Francisco, A Kiddush Cup Invitational
Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, LA Current

SELECTED CURATORIAL
2012 LAX World Airport/Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Out of this World -
Terry Braunstein, Susanna Meiers, Victor Raphael, June Wayne
2010 The American Jewish University, The Rashi Effect: Artist as Commentator (with Elizabeth Bloom)
2009 Zimmer Children's Museum, Show & Tell: The Art of Language, An international Art Exhibition
with 79 artists, including: Lita Albuquerque, John Baldessari, Terry Braunstein, Connor Everts,
Mark Steven Greenfield, Wayne Alaniz Healy, Deloss McGraw, John W. Outterbridge, Sheila
Pinkel, Edward Ruscha, Alison Saar, Peter Shire, June Wayne, and Ruth Weisberg.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bibliotheque national de France
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Doheny Library, University of Southern California
Griffin Museum of Photography
Huan Tie Art Museum, Beijing, China
Lehigh University
Lewis and Laura Kruger
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Monsanto Corporation
Oregon Jewish Museum
Polaroid Collection
Pollock-Krasner Study Center
Ruttenberg Arts Foundation
Self-Help Graphics & Art
Skirball Museum, Los Angeles
The Sol LeWitt Collection
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
USC Fisher Museum of Art
U.S. Trust Company
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University
William Morris Agency

Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Among works published are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow, a sizzling sunset by Peter Alexander, abstract compositions by Pauline Stella Sanchez and Jennifer Steinkamp, text and photo combinations by Bill Barminski and Nancy Dwyer, and conceptual photographs by Kevin Hanley. Doug Aitken, Polly Apfelbaum, David Levinthal, Richard Long, Christian Marclay, Alyson Shotz, Uta Barth all have published with them less