Ehud Grably's 1987 Curriculum Vitae

 “I have always been deterred by writing a resume, and probably, many people feel that way when they are asked to detail their history. Should I be telling what does painting mean to me? Or maybe tell about my first painting, my personal discovery, followed by a bountiful array of redundancy within the pressures of time?

My history, I say, and without pretence, ever since I can remember, is somehow linked and unified in art and detailed in painting. At first, I did not have the problem of “what” or “how” to paint. Some said it was born in me, that I am somewhat of a “genius.” I myself do not agree. I feel my life under the pressures of creating, I want, and maybe must, create and paint.

I never had an issue with the content of my statement, this and more, I have always thought in full and in addition, drawing from the age of about nine, I was never lacking in ideas. From about the age of fifteen, I began doing large scale pieces according to themes I thought up. Issues that bothered or interested me, and many questions that were answered in the visual medium in which I was living.

I always worked a lot. Day and night, while unknowingly giving up on most of the things kids my age occupied themselves with. It was always a merciless job, full of eager passions mixed with joy.”

Ehud Grably (1987)