About

As a student I found a strong sense of context for the history, art and literature I studied in my own personal history. My roots are in Europe and the Middle East. Byzantine, Hellenistic and Egyptian artifacts are a part of my daily life. The European Renaissance, 18th Century enamels and jeweled objects, the Art Nouveau as well as Japanese Art made a deep impression on me. I responded very strongly to the “abandon” in these works. Their creators used materials for their colors, qualities of light, texture - striving for the surprise, the impossible - these were their language. These strongly influenced my own “personal voice” in jewelry.
It is hard to define what inspires me; it is a most submerged and fragile process. Perhaps it is the images that make my breath catch when I see them, the sensualist in me responding to the, nearly, heart breaking beauty I see, the wonder of patterns, interrelationships, contrasts, fragility. A face or gesture that has the purity of line and color of the most poignant portraits in history. When I see these, it’s like experiencing an instant in another time, when some other artist lived with the same pang of discovery. In this era that has became so technocratic, supersaturated and desensitizing that I feel the need to keep these sensibilities is perhaps stronger than ever.
I use the classic themes of the nude, plants, birds and landscape as vehicles to explore forms, line and texture - always expanding further the possibilities of the enameling medium with its endless range of colors and the ability to play with light. I love the ritual aspects of the elemental processes of working with metal, glass, gems – making a precious object - capturing in that miniature fragment a timeless, magic quality.

• Born in the USSR.
  
• B.A. in Russian Literature and Art History from Queens College, CUNY, New York.
• B.F.A. in gold and silversmithing from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
  
• Outstanding Achievement Prizes and scholarship grants from the ISRAEL AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION.
  
• Taught Enameling at the Bezalel Academy for six years.

Exhibited:

Publications:

• GLASS ON METAL, December 2011, "Elements", cover
• GLASS ON METAL, February 2004, "Larissa Podgoretz - New Work", cover
• ART JEWELRY TODAY by Dona Meilach, 2003 THE JEWELER'S ART by Alice Spritzen
• JEWELERY AND METAL WORK IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS TRADITION by Elyse Zorn Karlin. Shiffer Publishing. p. 225
• ORNAMENT winter 1992, "Contemporary Enamels"
• ANTIQUE MONTHLY, June 1992, "Enamored of Enamels"
• ORNAMENT summer 1992, "Gold: Ornaments's 15th Anniversary"
• ORNAMENT autumn 1991, "Del Mano Gallery Showcase"
• GLASS ON METAL, October 1991. "Inview", Cover
• METALSMITH, summer 1991. "The Haiku Show"
• ORNAMENT, winter 1990, p28
• ORNAMENT, spring 1989, "Larissa Rosenstock, Featured Artist"
• JEWELERS CIRCULAR KEYSTONE, December, 1988
• JEWELS, November 1982, Japan. "Modern Israel-Jewelry Exhibition"