Maria Dov

Technique:Casting, Cold work, Kiln work

Occupation:Artist

Discipline:Design, Fine art, Sculptural

Areas of Interest:Exhibition, Networking, Techniques

Product:Sculpture, Fine Art, Commission

You can buy my work from:
https://www.maridov.com

Social media Links:
https://www.instagram.com/mari.dov.glass?igsh=MXQ3bjE3emVyN3A3dw==

Maria Dov is a Glass Artist and founder of the ‘Glass Me Studio’ based in Haifa, Israel. Maria studied Civil Engineering at the Open University of Israel before completing BA in Ceramics & Glass at the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem in 2020. Recent exhibitions have included a commission to make statues for ceremony in a memory of the Oslo Children’s Disaster, statues were given to elected officials of the ceremony. Permanent installation at the Beit HaNassi (Official residence of the President of Israel- “President’s House”). Annual exhibition 2023 at the ALROV Mamilla avenue, Jerusalem. Maria received the prize for high academic achievements at the Bezalel Graduate Exhibition 2020 for her graduate project “InferNow”.

The main focus of my artistic research is the exploration of the flexibility in my own thinking and re-evaluation of matters, related to human behavior: needs, habits, wishes, and hopes.
I aim to challenge the norms of human nature and society. I approach these topics through the exploration of both folk and modern cultures: the world of symbols, metaphors, proverbs and tales, expressing wisdom and morality.
I am constantly in search for analogies, interconnecting stories and plots. I see myself as a visual anthropologist of a modern-day time. I mainly use glass as my medium as I find it to have almost mysterious properties, such as transparency and visual illusions, thus it is a perfect material to make my ideas manifest. Glass is poignant in its delicateness but equally captivating in its strength.