Tammy Mike Laufer, lives and works in Israel. She is an International, contemporary artist, who specializes in Digital Drawing and Video Art.
Laufer is also the Founder, Producer, Designer, Curator, Art director & CEO at 44DEGREES Online Art Magazine and Gallery. She is one of the first artists who converted the traditional artistic practice in painting and design, to work with a mouse and a digital pen.
How did you start with art?
I have always loved to paint, I painted from a very young age, and became interested in architecture at age 6. I was already drawing plans for houses... In high school, I studied architecture and continued to paint. At the age of 14 I was sleeping with art books (brought to me by my parents from abroad) under my pillow...
After my military service I studied graphic design and art, I am an art director and digital artist. For the last decade, I have been an active artist and exhibited worldwide, I also create video art and prints of digital media paintings.
… Her work shows traces of Salvador Dali’s depiction of dreams, Frida Kahlo’s palette, Andy Warhol’s silk prints, and Judi Chicago’s early feminist work.
What themes come up in your art and do the memories and personal experiences reflect?
I look at life, personal experience from my journey, what life brings to me and all that is happening in the outside world, collective and individual experiences. All together is brought in my art like a story — I am a visual storyteller. My video art works are like old- fashioned films made with a magic lantern. Another powerful inspiration tool I often use is music, music evokes aliveness, waking up a full pallet of thoughts and creativity in me.
My digital drawing and video art is similar to mental puzzles, where you can travel from one point to another by analyzing a picture’s symbolic objects. There is always something for the observer to discover.
What are you working on right now and what is next?
I am now working on a new series of digital art and video art pieces, which reflect my great love for computer game design and art. I can hardly tell them apart.
What do you consider the role of an artist today?
To progress as an artist artistically and continue to create, not just art, but to develop additional digital platforms that will primarily promote women artists and decrease the gender gaps.
In my opinion, artists always touch on social issues as well.
They do not remain indifferent to what is happening around them. They raise awareness of important social issues, from climate change to politics and more.
