Pesach Slabosky is a Jerusalem-based artist who was born in the United States in 1947. He studied art in New York and immigrated to Israel in 1978.

Dvora Agranov was born in Afghanistan in 1934, and immigrated to Palestine with her family in 1937. She worked as domestic help and was active in the life of the Petach Tikva community. After she began painting, she taught art at the Schneider Children's Medical Center and the Sportan sports club in Petach Tikva. She is currently writing an autobiographical book.

- Earth, Fire, Air, Water -
Dvora (Amram) Agranov began to paint at the age of 59, when she accepted her daughter's offer to join a painting class. Within only a few years she had her first exhibition, at the Tel Aviv Artists' House. I was lucky to see the show, in the spring of 1997, and to meet Agranov on that occasion. When I visited Agranov recently, I asked to see something from that 1997 show. She showed me a large painting, Bird Mountain,
which I selected for the current exhibition. It is a burly work. A mountain made of spiky bird shapes, greets the eye, centered and flush with the picture plane. Behind, a lush space beckons. Made in another style, it demands a refocusing of the eyes. There is a foggy landscape as well as a city, or possibly a fort or a castle, painted in Chinese
style. Mountainous Afghanistan lies between here and China, and it was from there that Dvora Agranov immigrated with her family to mandatory Palestine when she was
three years old. In her work Agranov tells only of what she sees and senses. There is earth, air, fire, and water, and she knows their qualities. There is animal life and human
life. There are manmade structures which man deems important, but, in effect, they are a mere detail in the eternal tale.
Pesach Slabosky