{"id":3852,"date":"2012-06-01T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T11:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2012-06-01T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T11:19:16","slug":"artist-becomes-june-artist-of-the-month-atar-geva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/artist-becomes-june-artist-of-the-month-atar-geva\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Become&#8217;s June Artist of the Month: Atar Geva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Become (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistbe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ArtistBe.com<\/a>), the new online community for creating, selling and buying artwork online, today announces that Israeli artist Atar Geva has been named the June Artist of the Month. Since its official launch in March 2011, Artist Become has been opening doors for emerging and established artists around the world. Geva is one of more than 500 of its member artists hailing from outside of the United States. These international artists are based throughout the world, from Canada to Poland, Vietnam, and England, to name a few places.<\/p>\n<p>Geva is one of Artist Become\u2019s founding international members. The Israeli artist lives outside of Tel Aviv in Kibbutz Ein-Shemer. Geva is a second generation renowned artist, his father Avital Geva is widely recognized in the region for his work which combines science, art, nature and life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistbe.com\/artist-shop\/?artistId=214\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/atar_geva-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Atar Geva&#039;s Collection on ArtistBe.com\" title=\"Atar Geva&#039;s Collection on ArtistBe.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/atar_geva-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/atar_geva-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/atar_geva-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Geva began his own career as an artist a decade ago and describes his work as combining different styles and media, \u201cI always try to think and work simultaneously on different projects, because I believe that everything I do has a unique signature.\u201d Geva continues, \u201cYou can diagnose my painting style as &#8216;abstract&#8217; but it always deals with political and daily issues \u2013 and the same thing goes with my sculpture, installations and videos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atar exhibits nearly 20 works of art in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistbe.com\/artist-shop\/?artistId=214\" target=\"_blank\">personal gallery<\/a> on Artist Become. Those pieces include: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistbe.com\/product-detail\/1090\/79-meters-underground.html\" target=\"_blank\">79 Meters Underground<\/a> \u2013 Created in 2011, this painting is part of Geva\u2019s underground series.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistbe.com\/product-detail\/1083\/dig-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dig In<\/a> \u2013 Created in February 2011, this piece honor of the coal miners in Chile.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistbe.com\/product-detail\/1088\/echo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Echo<\/a> &#8211; Created in 2008, this piece is part of the echo series. The echo is refers to the 2006 second Lebanese War.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/atar-geva-79-under.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/atar-geva-79-under-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Art by the Artist Atar Geva \" title=\"Art by the Artist Atar Geva \" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/atar-geva-79-under-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/atar-geva-79-under-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/atar-geva-79-under-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/atar-geva-79-under.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Geva\u2019s work has been presented in a number of art fairs in Israel and abroad. 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