Nili Carasso was born in 1951, in Jerusalem.
At the age of ten, Nili attended art classes at the Bezalel art school in Jerusalem.
By the time Nili was 26, she graduated from David Yalin College with a major in Design, Composition, and Art. For the next twenty years, Nili participated in work groups for preparing study programs and instructing teachers.
The opportunity to express herself through sculpturing was so meaningful to her, she decided to dedicate her time to the art, and she continued studying sculpture in Bezalel and in various private studios.
Nili exhibits her artwork in Israel and in New York, in private collections and in commercial offices.
In her private studio, Nili sculpts using various materials including clay, aluminum, plaster, concrete, brass, and bronze. Her sculptures are unique. She describes her individual style: “I love to express the softness and sensitivity of the figures and to integrate it with movement, dynamics and strength, using various textures. The figures are energetic, dynamic, and creative. They express love for family, children and people. ”
Nili Carasso presents a number of works in bronze inspired from this eternal and endless source of inspiration which is the Scripture. She shows a remarkable ability to penetrate this world of the Bible, from which she extracts, with intelligence and talent the most significant models of our people: David, Miriam, and Bat-Sheva
Nili Carasso’s bronze sculptures articulately express her unique personality, her love of humanity and family, and her close personal bond to her legacy and tradition.
Her topics involve people, their emotions and the relationships between them. The shapes and designs of her figures, with heads that are usually devoid of facial features and that are small in relation to the size of the body, render these characters truly unique and serve to emphasize the artist’s distinctive perception. The artist is not merely trying to mimic reality, but rather, to create an artistic reality of her own.
The most prominent qualities of the sculptures are: movement, flow, dynamics, and an emphasis on combination between smooth areas and various textures, as well as the colorfulness of the surface area.
Although most of the sculptures are made of bronze, some appear to be made of marble, stone, wood and other materials. This originates from the patina used by the artist to paint the completed sculptures, which consists of the process of covering the surface, cauterization, covering with wax and the final polishing.
