RANCHUK

Selected work

Found metal from around Tel Aviv — saw blades, road signs, a hatchet — painted until the object forgets what it was for.

Selected Work

A large wall painted in overlapping blocks of grey and white with magenta and rust bleeding through, and stencilled black lettering half buried under the top coat.

2025 · Acrylic and spray paint on wall

A grey monochrome canvas hung on a whitewashed brick wall, showing a hand hanging down from the top edge with a heavy Cuban link bracelet at the wrist.

2025 · Acrylic and charcoal on canvas

A weathered triangular red road sign with its centre cut away and filled by a painted open mouth — upper and lower teeth, and a tongue pushed out with a white pill resting on it.

2025 · Acrylic on reclaimed road sign

A hatchet painted head to handle: a freckled face with a wide open mouth spans the blade, and purple flowers on a yellow ground run down the shaft into a red grip with a yellow butt.

2025 · Acrylic on hatchet

An adjustable wrench painted pink and hung by its eye, with red lipstick kiss prints crowded across the jaw and lower shaft. The Taparia maker's stamp shows through the paint.

2025 · Enamel and lipstick on adjustable wrench

A tall narrow panel of bare metal covered in drawing and spray paint: blackletter type running down the left side, a red and yellow bird in oil pastel, and a row of collaged faces along the top.

2025 · Spray paint, oil pastel and collage on sheet metal

A painting on a cream ground of a figure's bare back seen from below: long black braids swing out to either side, a silver chain sits at the nape, a black tribal tattoo spans the shoulder blades, and a red stencilled bar of illegible lettering is stamped across the lower back.

2025 · Acrylic on wood panel

A toothed saw blade painted purple. On the left, a cartoon bear in a grey varsity jacket and blue shorts; on the right, a multicoloured face with a wide open mouth. A barbell-like rod joins them across the blade's centre hole.

2024 · Acrylic on circular saw blade

A circular saw blade painted as a wide-open mouth: red lips ringed in orange, white upper teeth and yellowed lower teeth against a black interior.

2024 · Acrylic on circular saw blade

A square plywood panel with a tiger and a coiled dragon burned into the pale grain in fine line, columns of kanji at the upper left and lower right, and a heavily scorched black border around all four edges.

Tiger and Dragon

2024 · Pyrography on plywood

About

Ranchuk works out of Tel Aviv, painting on whatever the city stops needing.

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