Hillel Zhenwirth Art
About Hillel Zhenwirth
Artist Statement
My name is Hillel Zehnwirth, and I live — and work — inside a bubble.
This bubble is the lens through which I see the world and create my art. In it, I am actor, director, and witness. The bubble is not an escape, but a mirror — a reflection of reality, culture, and the ways they shape me. Sometimes reality intrudes, distorting the bubble’s surface, forcing me to confront what lies outside and within.
Much of my work explores the tension between inner perception and external truth. My self-image rarely matches how others see me — and that dissonance is where the art lives. The human eye, a recurring motif in my paintings, becomes a metaphor: each eye is its own bubble, a fragile sphere reflecting light, reality, and the soul behind it.
We are born blank, without consciousness, and slowly sculpted by family, society, and time. Those forces pull at us, stretch us, leave their marks. My paintings trace those invisible cables that tie past to present, self to other.
What I offer is not a single message, but an encounter: moments that are intimate, sometimes unsettling, often both tragic and funny. My work invites viewers to enter the bubble with me — to reflect on their own distortions, their own mirrors, their own truths.
Hillel Zhenwirth