Yael Caffrey (b. 1983, Israel) is an Israeli artist known for her meticulously rendered, large-scale colored-pencil drawings. She graduated with honors from the School of Art – Hamidrasha at Beit Berl Academic College in 2013.

Caffrey’s work explores the unstable boundary between attraction and discomfort, focusing particularly on ideas of portraiture, physical difference and socially constructed standards of beauty. Beginning with figurative images, she disrupts, fragments and reconstructs faces and bodies, creating subjects that appear simultaneously vulnerable, unsettling and visually seductive. The painstaking precision of her drawing intensifies this tension, encouraging the viewer to look closely at images that resist conventional ideas of perfection.

In her 2017 solo exhibition Everything Is Going to Be Alright at P8 Gallery in Tel Aviv, Caffrey presented monumental portraits that had been cut apart, distorted and reassembled through scanning before being printed on paper. She has also participated in Fresh Paint’s Independent Artists’ Greenhouse and numerous group exhibitions in Israel.
In this posed family portrait Caffrey reviews the female character by distilling an uncomfortable situation in order to explore the feelings that arise from it- as a participant and as an outside viewer.