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Efrat (Effi) Baler

Art Portfolios

Multidisciplinary artist based in New York working between painting and sculpture across wall-hung and floor-standing forms

Hybrid works that fuse painting with 3D physicality through constructed surfaces and layered structures. Domestic objects, narrative imagery, and natural forms reveal multiple viewpoints and the physical stages of the creative process, exposing what is concealed beneath and behind the surface of the image and canvas. Explore the two collections:

Objects & Constructed Narratives

This work brings together a figure based on Rembrandt’s A Woman Bathing in a Stream and Little Bo Peep from Toy Story to explore how female representation shifts across time and media. Bo Peep appears both as a stylized figure within the painting and as a found object—a mass-produced toy—blurring the line between image and object.
By folding time across eras, the piece stages an encounter between past and present, classical painting and commercial animation. It reflects on how cultural icons evolve, how bodies are depicted, and how meaning transforms through repetition, nostalgia, and the passage of time.

FOLDED TIME: ENCOUNTERS AND TRANSFORMATIONS

2025, Acrylic on canvas and found objects
20 x 34 x 2.5 inches

Organic Structures & Natural Forms

MULTIVERSE OF A HOMELAND

2025, Mixed media on joined canvases and found objects
25 x 60 x 5 inches

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