Yael Dresdner is a painter and a mixed media artist, as well as a designer and breath-body-mind teacher. Originally from Haifa, Israel, she has lived in the U.S. for over four decades, and her practice is based in New York City, where she also lives. When painting, Yael uses oil on canvas, watercolor and pastel on paper. Her mixed media pieces explore fiber art and text-based art, incorporating repurposed materials such as fiber, threads, hair, cheesecloth, earth and leather gloves. Although she does not define her practice as social justice, the viewer can’t help but recognize the concerns for the environment in her Float and Galapagos series, and women’s rights in her Events in the Body Mini Torsos series.
Yael earned a BFA in Visual Communications from GW University. She studied painting at Arts Students League and New York Studio School in NYC, and received further training at Corcoran School of Art and Washington Studio School in Washington, DC.
Among others, Yael’s work has been included in shows at Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Cummings Art Gallery at Connecticut College, Yale Divinity School, Creative Arts Workshop and The Urban Collective, CT; Art Lives Here, LIC Arts/Factory Gallery, 440 Gallery, La Bodega Gallery, Bernard Heller Museum in NYC; and Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ. Her work can be found in public and private collections, including Thomson Financial, Robert Jackson (NY State Senator) and The Chesapeake Group, New York, NY; Columbia Hospital for Women and Charlie McBride & Associates, Washington, DC, and private collections in the U.S. and Israel.