RONIT JOY HOLTZ
ARTIST BIO:
Ronit Joy Holtz is a painter and an installation artist from a crossroad between the United States and Israel. She completed a B.F.A in painting with high academic honors at the Savannah College of Art and Design in the spring of 2019. Her work has been exhibited in France, Switzerland, Spain, Australia, throughout the United States, and Israel, including six solo exhibitions to date.
Captured by Nick Johnson
Captured by Ori Ben Zvi
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Everything I make begins with my hands digging into materials: sand, wax, soil, salt, leather, fibers, and found objects that carry their own histories. The surfaces on my work rise like archaeological sites, holding layers of pain, faith, memory, and resilience. I don’t paint to illustrate, I paint to excavate.
My creative process is a spiritual pilgrimage. I sift, layer, carve, and stitch while mapping grief, longing, joy, and return. The alchemy of mixed media mirrors the alchemy of the human spirit: how broken or lost items can transform and resurrect.
In my studio, I weave together stories of the lands I grew up in and the ancestral echoes I’ve inherited. The past and present speak to each other. I create to honor, to understand, and to offer a space where viewers are held, seen in their questions, griefs, hopes, and their becoming. My paintings are not objects; they are invitations: to feel, to remember, to witness, and to heal.