About me
Aela Boyum Morgan immigrated to the United States when she was just eight-years-old and had the full immigrant experience. Her father’s surviving Romanian family made it to Israel after escaping the ovens in Romania and two years of the camps in Cyprus. On her mother’s side, Aela has a Sephardic lineage. Her people fought for the creation of the State of Israel after their perilous journey to the land. Aela feels very fortunate to be in the position to continue her family's work. And her own work. In a case of art imitating life, Aela’s big, bold, audacious ongoing story meets her big, bold and audacious paintings. Aela now lives and works in New York and Colorado, where this Israeli-American and fine artist paints in her studio.
Over the course of a decade, Aela developed a serious artistic practice dedicated to confronting the human condition and what connects and separates us. Her firm belief – despite or because of the daily headlines – is that we are more alike than different. Real artists like real activists – Aela in a nutshell – bring about real disruption with the idea of bringing something new into the world: a new color, a new complexion, a new way of looking at our world, the good, the bad and the ugly. Aela’s diverse series tend to document the psychological and emotional complexities of human lives, with a focus on women, revealed in a combination of figurative and abstract imagery. Her images explore the multiple layers of female identity by examining universal experiences of sexuality, spirituality, and aging, while documenting women’s numerous roles as mothers, daughters, wives, citizens, travelers, activists, consumers, and creators. In short, Aela alchemizes her rich, often challenging, but mostly wonderful life experiences onto her canvases, taking her “art” straight out of “heART.”
Aela joined Elluminate in 2012 to deepen her involvement in the American Jewish community. She currently serves as board secretary.
