Yossi Waxman is an Israeli artist. He lives in the artists village of Ein Hod on Carmel Mountain, and show his works in the village main gallery.

Waxman paints personal and universal myths, legends, stories with plots, and good and evil characters, and something very specific, a sort of archetype, one we feel we all know even long before we learned the word “archetype”.
The dramatic element is central in Waxman’s works and though the paintings are physically quite large, he construct the scenes in relatively small, theatrical, even intimate spaces.
Waxman employs dramatic techniques to create a strong dissonance between two types of emotions: pity and vulnerability on the one hand, terror and pornography on the other.
Nanno Shabtay