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Razia Gershon is a talented Israeli-born sculptor who has focused her artwork from an early stage, on the aesthetic possibilities of the human body.

Razia, in the early part of her career, studied modern ballet under modern dance pioneer, Gertrud Krauss and classical ballet under the celebrated, late Mia Arbatova.

Razia worked as a physical and ballet educator after she graduated from the Wingate Institute and the Avni Institute of Art in Tel-Aviv.

Her masterful sculptures and knowledge of the human body’s capability of motion is partially due to her studies under Tania Preminger and David Zondelovitz, both professors in Russian art academies.

After this, to add a ribbon to her already-impressive credentials, she attended art history lectures with Professor Marcel Mendelson at Bar Ilan University.

All presented in figurative classic style, based on and inspired by the human body, its movements and ballet steps, Razia’s bronze sculptures are among the most remarkable contemporary art, the world over. Each sculpture is cast in bronze, and despite the rigidity and hardness of the material, the viewer sees and feels the elegant and gentle motion which is expressed in the work.
Among the highlights of Razia’s prolific work are a bronze garden sculpture series of various sheep and other animals. The comic bronze figures have become the artists’ trademark in Israel. In 2006 she completed a new series of Horse Sculptures which included six new pieces to her collection.

Some of her work has even been presented to US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Israeli President Shimon Peres, and even the late King Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Razia Gershon works at her studio in Ramat Hasharon, Israel where her private bronze collection is on display. The statues can be found in private collections in Israel and abroad.