The Tel Aviv Museum of Art's American Friends (TAMAF) invited attendees to join artist Michal Rovner for a privately led tour of her exhibition, Pragim, at Pace Gallery in New York. The exhibition, titled Pragim—Hebrew for Poppies—showcased prints, video works, and installations from a series Rovner initiated in 2019. Over the past five years, Rovner documented wild poppies growing in her Israeli field as part of this ongoing project.

With a career spanning over 30 years, Rovner has explored universal themes concerning the human condition, including identity, place, and dislocation. The poppy, with its diverse cultural connotations, embodies notions of fragility, resilience, remembrance, and loss. The ongoing regional conflicts have lent a new layer of significance to Rovner's Pragim works, reflecting the unrest and anguish in the region. Utilizing a somber color palette of black, gray, and red, Rovner infuses her human-scale poppies with a sense of harshness and tragedy.

We had the privilege of Marc Glimcher, CEO of Pace Gallery, introducing Michal to our group followed by a tour led by the artist. TAMAF guests were invited after this tour to a private room for a celebratory toast to the artist. Thank you to Pace Gallery, Marc Glimcher, Valentina Volchkova, Dani Forest, and our TAMAF Family.