New York City – Israeli artist Gideon Rubin presents twenty-two new paintings and his first video animation in his second solo show in New York, hosted by the Hosfeldt Gallery from 5th May to 18th June. This new body of work, originating from early twentieth-century found photographs, shows figures on the shoreline, capturing private moments of a family on holiday. They are intimate and serene images that belie darker events on the horizon. Rubin’s obsession with old European family photo albums derives from his own lost history as a result of the Holocaust, as well as an effort to reclaim his European heritage. Rubin’s first animated video, ‘To Change Air a Little,’ was inspired by Chaim Nachman Bialik, Israel’s national poet. The work refers to Bialik’s fondness for long walks and captures the meditative aspect of this solitary practice.