Aloni Reznik Studio

Title: Aloni Reznik Studio Category: Photography Artists Clicks: 237 Listing added: Jul 5, 2005 PageRank: 2/10

In 1999 her work was included in a prestigious exhibition, 'Realism, PhotoRealism, SuperRealism', at the Harwood Museum in Taos. That fall, Aloni was able to quit cooking and baking and support herself solely through art sales. In June, 2000, The Parks Gallery presented her first one-person show, 'Eclipse - New Embroideries.' The success of her two one-person shows in 2001 was followed by exposure in Fiber Arts and Stitch Magazine in early 2002. In addition, The American Craft Museum in New York has acquired a recent work, the Elf Princess. Since early 2001, Mical has been collaborating with Taos' photography artist and husband, Assaf Reznik. Their unique artwork features under the pseudonym M.A. Rezoni, and was debuted at the 'Masks and Mysteries' exhibit at Nomad Gallery in May, 2001. t the age of twenty three, Assaf Reznik left his home in Israel and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1989 with a an undergraduate degree in computer science. The following nine years, Reznik would gain employment with distinguished bay area multimedia companies such as Lucas Arts, McGraw Hill Home Interactive, Pixel Multimedia and Ziff Davis while he furthered his interests in photography studies at City College of San Francisco. During his years in the bay area, Reznik also shot photos for several newspapers, including The Guardsman in San Francisco, Chrome and Maariv in Tel Aviv, where he photographed Irving Yalom, author of When Nietzsche Wept. Shortly after his first exhibition at City Arts Gallery in San Francisco, Reznik moved to Taos, NM where he debut his first solo exhibition, Duality to Unity, in 1999. A multi-disciplinary performance that accompanied the exhibit also led to his first short movie, which he produced in collaboration with photo-realistic embroidery artist Mical Aloni. His solo exhibition led to exhibits at The Parks Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Palos Verdes Art Center. Since 2001, Assaf has been collaborating with Aloni. Their unique art form, photo-embroidery, features under the pseudonym M.A. Rezoni, and is also shown at Horizons Gallery in Taos.