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Beverly Barkat

Beverly Barkat is an Israeli visual artist, born in Johannesburg in 1966, known for abstract paintings on transparent PVC sheets and the sculpture Earth Poetica.

born 1966Abstract painting on PVC sheetsThe Earth Poetica sculptureEvocative Surfaces exhibition in Venice

Occupation: painter
Education: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Beverly Barkat was born in 1966 in Johannesburg

Beverly Sakalovsky was born in 1966 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her parents, Louis and Lorna Sakalovsky, were both artists. The family moved to Israel in 1976 and settled in Jerusalem.

She joined the IDF in 1984. She then studied in the Department of Metalsmithing and Jewellery Design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and finished her bachelor's degree in 1990.

After her studies she designed jewelry and later made blown glass sculptures, working with a factory in the Czech Republic from 1995. She also designed private homes, public spaces and libraries in elementary schools. From 2006 to 2009 she studied painting in Israel Hershberg's master class at the Jerusalem Studio School.

In 2009 she opened a studio in Jerusalem, and her painting moved from figurative work toward abstraction. She began painting on transparent PVC sheets and showed her work in Venice in 2017 and Rome in 2018. In 2022 she completed Earth Poetica, a sphere made of panels filled with plastic waste.

She is married to Nir Barkat, a former mayor of Jerusalem, and they have 3 daughters.