Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present In Search of Beauty, a solo exhibition of Yigal Ozeri bringing together nearly two decades of paintings primarily from the artist’s celebrated Women in Nature series. On view from September 24 through October 31, 2026, the exhibition follows two major presentations of Ozeri’s work organized by Ethan Cohen Gallery in 2025 and returns to the body of work for which the artist first became internationally recognized.
For nearly twenty years, Ozeri has painted women outdoors: immersed in water, reclining beside lakes, standing in fields and forests, caught in the transient light of an open landscape, or moving through the streets of the city. The premise is deceptively simple. Yet across these paintings, nature is never merely a setting and portraiture is never simply descriptive. Figure and landscape continually act upon one another. Hair moves with wind and water; skin takes on the temperature of surrounding light; reflections fracture the solidity of bodies. At times the women appear intensely present. At others, they seem on the verge of disappearing into the world around them.