Rafi is an award winning contemporary artist who creates emotionally charged works. He is best known for his use of texture and bold color palates in striking pieces that each has a story to tell. His art is inspirational and based on his experience in life and the forward moving concepts of the mind.
Rafi is a self taught artist who spent years refining his own techniques and creating a style that is all his own. He has a unique ability to absorb colors and emotions in a very abstract way and is somehow able to translate it into the high energy fine art for which he is known.
"He is driven to communicate visual qualities of perhaps the external environment which offers us freedom and inspiration as we cope with awesome focal points in the vast open space surrounding our existence. He attempts to show the internal passion of human sensuality that brings quality to our senses stimulating and extending our consciousness elevating life as individuals or sharing space with others around us. Ultimately Rafi seems to convey simple sophistication and intellectual freedom as he uses the visual language to express the human potential." - Spiros Zachos (PO10TIAL Magazine)
Rafi's work can be found in myriad of public and private art collections both in the United States and abroad, He currently lives and works in Pensacola, Florida.
"Fear is a figment of your imagination, when you experience this you will find that no limitation is real."
-Rafi
"In order to live you must be out of your mind, because if you spend too much time in your mind you will not enjoy your creations of reality."
-Rafi
"Life is really not complicated at all, we learned to complicate it at an early age of innocence when we listened to what life is supposed to be. Then when we were old enough to change it, fear and lies told us to keep complicating it, and so we did because we find comfort in our drama."
-Rafi
"My two year old is teaching me more about life and love than I have experienced in thirty five years of living."
-Rafi
"Relationships fail simply because for most it is within their comfort zone to make them fail. We forget who we are and hide behind a mask of who we should be, we go into a relationship lying to ourselves and our partner. We look for love everywhere other than inside ourselves and are resentful when our spouse does not meet our expectations. We do it over and over, on a hamsterwheel that never stops, all you have to do is jump off."
-Rafi
"I have noticed in my experience in business that the only limitation to success are in the limitations you believe you have. It is a simple matter of living with no limits."
-Rafi
"Some people will say 'I like myself a lot' then ten minutes later lock their keys in their car and say 'God, I'm so stupid sometimes!' this is not love, watch how you talk to yourself because your word is extremely powerful. You define yourself through action and words, so don't be verbally or physically abusive with the person you spend the most time with, yourself."
-Rafi
"Lack of self worth is a disease that as spread in this world. We learn to lie to ourselves and not see our perfection. When we don't see our own perfection we cannot see the perfection in others. When we don't love ourselves, we cannot love others. We cannot give what we do not have for ourself."
-Rafi
"Stop trying to figure out how to solve your problems because the pieces to the puzzle are not all in plain view. You will focus only on the pieces in plain view and not see the others, thus driving yourself crazy. Just allow it to happen how ever it will, just know it will."
-Rafi
"I am grateful today for my left pinky toe, tomorrow it may be my right."
-Rafi