YORAM WOLBERGER
Thank You (Poppy), 2023
Fiberglass Composite and Ink
60 × 63 × 5 in / 152.4 × 160 × 12.7 cm
Editions 1-5 of 5 + 2AP
YORAM WOLBERGER
Trophy (Baseball #1), 2009
3-D digital Scan, CNC Sculpting, bronze and chrome / 84 x 65 x 29 in. / Edition of 3 + 2AP
(AP 1/1 Collection of San Diego Public Library Foundation)
YORAM WOLBERGER
TROPHY #2 (Baseball), 2017
Cast stainless steel
84 × 60 × 29 in / 213.4 × 152.4 × 73.7 cm
Edition of 3 + 2AP
TROPHY #2 (Baseball), 2017 /Cast stainless steel / 78 × 36 × 36 in (alternate view)
YORAM WOLBERGER
Toy Soldier #5 (Kneeling Position), 2020
3D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, Reinforced Fiberglass Composite, Urethane
50 × 60 × 24 in / 127 × 152.4 × 61 cm
Edition of 3 + 2APs
YORAM WOLBERGER
Toy Soldier #5 (Kneeling Position), 2020
3D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, Reinforced Fiberglass Composite, Urethane
50 × 60 × 24 in / 127 × 152.4 × 61 cm
Edition of 3 + 2APs
YORAM WOLBERGER
Toy Soldier #4 (Offhand Position), 2015 / 3D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, Reinforced Fiberglass Composite, Urethane / 72 x 60 x 24 in
Alternative view: Toy Soldier #4 (Offhand Position), 2015
YORAM WOLBERGER
Blue Cowboy #2 (Rifleman), 2008 / reinforced cast fiberglass composite and pigmented resin / 75 x 60 x 22 inches / edition of 3 + 2 APs
YORAM WOLBERGER
Red Indian #4 (Spearman), 2007
reinforced cast fiberglass composite and pigment resin / 78 x 60 x 24 inches
Collection of The Brooklyn Art Museum
YORAM WOLBERGER
Red Indian #2 (Bowman), 2006
reinforced fiberglass and pigmented resin / 94.5 x 78 x 27 inches
Collection of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
YORAM WOLBERGER
Red Indian Chief, 2005 / Reinforced fiberglass composite / 91.5 x 76.75 x 19.25 inches / Edition 1/1 + 1 AP
Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA
YORAM WOLBERGER
CA Mission, 2011 / Reinforced Fiberglass, Steel, Urethane Paint
H18 ft x L 14ft x 6 in
"Millennium Tower"" Public Art Commission (San Francisco, CA)
YORAM WOLBERGER
Toy Soldier #3 (Crawling Soldier), 2004
3-D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, reinforced fiberglass, pigmented resin
18 x 102 x 36 inches
Collection of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
YORAM WOLBERGER
Soldier Portrait #1, 2015 / resin cast / 20 x 10 x 10 inches
Soldier Portrait #1, 2015 / resin cast / 20 x 10 x 10 inches
(alternate view)
YORAM WOLBERGER
Madonna, 2004
3D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, polyester foam, pigmented resin
72 x 33 x 16 inches
Collection of the Orange County Museum of Art
YORAM WOLBERGER
Farm Girl, 2001
3D digital scanning, CNC digital sculpting, polyester foam, pigmented resin
Dimensions variable
Collection of The Brooklyn Art Museum
YORAM WOLBERGER
“Petting Zoo”, 2004
cast plastic
dimensions variable
The set consists of one of each of the works noted below:
1. Lamb (edition of 6 + 2 A/P) 23 x 5.5 x 14 inches
2. Sheep (edition of 3 + 2 A/P) 30 x 12 x 15 inches
3. Calf (edition of 4 + 2 A/P) 36 x 13 x 15 inches
4. White Bunny #2 - (edition of 6 + 2 A/P) 8 x 24 x 5 inches
5. White Bunny #1 (edition of 3 + 2 A/P) 19 x 12 x 5 inches
Calf, 2004 / cast plastic and polyester foam, edition of 6 / 36 x 13 x 15 inches
White Bunny #1, 2004 / cast plastic, edition of 3 / 19 x 12 x 5 inches
Lamb, 2004 / cast plastic, edition of 6 / 23 x 5.5 x 14 inches
Sheep, 2004 / cast plastic and polyester foam, edition of 6 / 30 x 12 x 15 inches
YORAM WOLBERGER
Hutch, 2001 / Wood, wood products, and brass hardware / 156 x 72 x 24 inches / Collection of the McNay Art Museum
YORAM WOLBERGER
Princess Set, 1998 – 2000
This work has four elements that transform and turn themselves inside out:
A. Princess Set / Night Stand; Wood, Wood products, hinges;; 24in x 19in x 14in (Variable); 1998.
B. Princess Set / Dresser; Wood, Wood products, hinges; 30in x 96in x 15in (Variable); 1999.
C. Princess Set / Desk; Wood, Wood products, hinges; 30in x 84in x 15in; (Variable); 2000.
D. Princess Set / Vanity; Wood, Wood products, hinges; 30in x 84in x 15in; (Variable); 2000.
Princess Set, 1998 – 2000
OPEN VIEW
YORAM WOLBERGER
Red Gun Blue Gun, 2013 / resin cast / 11.5 x 6 x 1.5 inches each
Red Gun Blue Gun (detail), 2013 / resin cast / 11.5 x 6 x 1.5 inches each
Yoram Wolberger uses childhood toys and everyday domestic items to create his large scale sculptures, foregrounding the latent symbolism and cultural paradigms of these objects that so subtly inform Western culture. By enlarging this ephemera to life size, Wolberger emphasizes the distortions of their original manufacture disallowing any real illusion and conceptually forcing the viewer to reconsider their meanings. When enlarged beyond any possibility of dismissal, we see that toy soldiers create lines between Us and Them, plastic cowboys and Indians marginalize and stereotype the Other, even wedding cake bride and groom figurines dictate our expected gender roles.
Wolberger (b. 1963, Tel Aviv, Israel) earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute's (CA) New Genres Department. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has been featured in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), deCordova Sculpture Park (MA), the Aldrich Contemporary Museum (CT), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL) and the Israeli Museum of Modern Art (Israel) among others. His works have been acquired for the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), the Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside (CA) and the McNay Art Museum (TX). The artist lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
