Ira Polonsky (b. 1978) was born in Moscow, Russia. She holds a BA in Design from the Moscow Architecture Institute. She studied drawing and painting at a studio of a collective of local artists, graduates of the prestigious Surikov Institute. In 2017, Polonsky immigrated to Israel and lives and works in Haifa. Her studio works include paintings, collages and textiles. She is completing her MFA at Haifa University.

Polonsky’s final project explores the medium of painting, its limitations and how it connects to reality. She tries to undo a sublime culture of artistic representation and lowers and reforms artistic sentences that create tension between art and life crises.

She creates her situations when the painting on the framed canvas opens in space and becomes an installation that joins pieces of painting with pieces of objects. This act allows her to explore the fine line dividing ideals from their disillusion, the organic world, whole and almost classic and the interferences that penetrate and disrupt it. In her space, painting transgresses its confines, loses its characteristics and becomes an object while remaining precisely what it is.