For many years, as an artist living in Israel, Arie Lamdan painted Israeli landscapes as well as the elderly people of his city, Rishon-Le-Zion - playing chess in the park, or sitting idly on the sidewalk benches, their tired eyes fixed on the people strolling by. In these, he tries to capture the fleeting touch of sadness on an old man's face, or the hint of a smile on the dark wrinkled face of an elderly Yemenite woman. To capture them in paint he turns to impressionism, using swift dashes of color on canvas to create a painted symphony of all the colors of the rainbow. For Lamdan, painting is a means of expressing, in a visual and interpretative form, all that he feels and experiences in his life, his dreams. Born in Israel in 1944, resides in the city of Rishon Le Zion. Education • 1962 - 1966 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Massachussetts College of Art, Boston, U.S.A • 1962 - 1966 Bachelor of Jewish Education, Hebrew Teachers' College, Boston, U.S.A. • 1974 - 1976 Advanced course in etching with Tuvia Beri • 1994 Completed course for tour leaders abroad • Since 1970 Member of Israel Artists' Guild • 1981 - 1982 Member of "Group of Six" • 1980 - 1993 Member of Art Committee of "Bet Yad Lebanim" One of the founders of the Artists' Association of Rishon Le Zion. One Man Exhibitions • 1961 Boston, U.S.A. • 1971, 1974 Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv • 1971-1988 Yurek Gallery, Ramat Hasharon • 1976 Le Cadre Gallery, Toronto, Canada • 1977, 1978 Sara Kishon Gallery, Tel-Aviv • 1986 Artists' House, Tel-Aviv • 1988, 1991 Art Museum, Holon • 1988 Amalia Arbel Art Gallery, Rishon Le Zion • 1989 Shir-Art Gallery, Rishon Le Zion • 1994 Artists' House, Rishon Le Zion ("Body building - a fleeting line") • 1995 Art Center, Rishon Le Zion ("Land that devours its people") • 1998 Sculpture exhibition, Art Center, Rishon Le Zion • 2000 Watercolor exhibition, Bet Yad Lebanim, Rishon Le Zion • 2001 Sculpture exhibition, "Hamigdal", Tel-Aviv • 2004 Art Center, Rishon Le Zion - large format drawings • 2006 Gallery Ca'nirei, Zikhron Ya'akov, "Junk passed over" Group Exhibitions • 1968 Artists' House, Jerusalem. • 1976 Basel Art Exhibit, Switzerland • 1977 "Lenhard" Gallery, Koln, Germany. • 1981, 1982 Exhibitions with the "Group of Six" • 1987 Bat-Yam Museum. • 1989 Artists' House, Tel-Aviv (Homage to Rembrandt). • 1990 Sculpture Park, Tzrifin ("The Motorcyclist"). • 1991 International Sculpture Exhibition, Rishon Le Zion ("Don Quixote"). • 1992 Exhibition at the Winery, Rishon Le Zion (Wine Festival). • 1993 Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Arts Center, Rishon Le Zion. • 1996 Ora Abrahami Gallery, Rishon Le Zion ("Travel Impressions"). • 2000 "To another thousand years of painting", Arts Center, Rishon Le Zion. • 2001 Museum of the Plain, Kfar Menahem. • 2002 Museum of the Plain, Kfar Menahem. • 2004 "The Group of Six", Sarah Kishon Gallery, Tel Aviv.