Jorge Cabeceiras presents a small assortment from an extremely large corpus of works about Jerusalem. From portraits of random people to television characters, he paints daily at the places that are walking distance from his house –Sacker Park, Mahane Yehuda Market and Bezalel Street. He names this triangle the "eternal triangle".
For Cabeceiras, color is the language of painting, his words, his main subject to be examined again and again. The color creates the true dialogue between the place or the person he paints and his feelings towards them. The places and portraits are only a "way station" to reaching the right color. Cabeceiras claims his influences range from da Vinci to Damien Hirst, as well as colorful children's books. He uses a painter's knife to create "thick color" in his paintings. The meaning is built from hue to hue, by his relation to the people and places he paints. Thus, the color builds his world, and like a landmark, defines his place in the world, where he belongs, like a puzzle leading him, piece after piece to the hue his eye is seeking.

1951 Born in the Azorean Mountains, Portugal
1956 Immigrated to the United States
1971-1975 United States Marine Corps
1989 Immigrated to Israel
1975-1979 B.F.A Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, USA
1982-1983 Foreign language studies, P.U.C. University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1993-1994 “Artists Execute Art” – New Immigrants Program, Bezalel – Academy of Art and Design

Solo Exhibitions

1994 “Still Burning” – Paintings, Exodus Gallery, Jerusalem
1995 “Creatures of Imitation” – Installation and Performance, Double Space Studio, Jerusalem
1998 “Reflections 89-98” – Paintings, G + G Literary Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
1999 “Spooks ‘R’ Shadows” – Paintings and Spooks, Municipal City Gallery, Jerusalem
2000 “Subconscious/Conscious” – Paintings and Spook, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2001 “Recent Works” – Paintings, Co-Art Gallery, Jerusalem
2003 “The Other Side of Black”, The Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem

Group Exhibitions

1994 “Art Fosters Art” – Paintings, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
“New Members Exhibitions” – Feedback Installation, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1995 “Jerusalem: Landscape & Memory” – Paintings, The Artists’ Village, Brener, Talpiot, Jerusalem
2000 “33x33 – Panorama” – Spooks, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2001 “Self Portrait” – Paintings, Co-Art Gallery, Jerusalem
“Spring Exhibition of Jerusalem Artists” – Paintings, Cultural Center for Russian Jewry, Jerusalem
2002 “Self Portrait” – Paintings, Ein Hod Gallery, Ein Hod
2008 “Jerusalem Surface Fractures”, Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem