Tal Gallery is honored to present Shirley Siegal's solo exhibition. Siegal is a multidisciplinary artist, archeologist, curator, and art history lecturer. She exhibits her latest works of women portraits, representing the various faces of Israeli society. A closer look shows how with her brush she conveys to the viewer the inner essence of the character, emphasizing her features thus revealing her hidden inner being.

Many of her portraits are women with head cover, which symbolizes their social or religious ethnic origin. The head cover, historically imposed on women as a restriction by most religions or other social convictions, may be perceived in Siegal's paintings as a common feature that connects and brings women together.  

The series of small oil paintings made recently by quick lines drawn on canvas came as a response to the latest events of terror and hostility from both sides. It is the artist's protest, a manifest to women-mothers who, by their silent cry, can maybe bring an innocent hope for a change, an end to the madness of violence.

The exhibition also presents earlier works like the Jerusalem series (2012-2013) and original series of portraits made on stones (2006-2013). The stone, a material with natural form and texture, transforms by Siegal's brush to expressive portraits of realistic faces that seem to be carved by nature.