His current work explores nature. It is his collaborator and has even become his material. He makes paintings of his mother’s backyard in the San Fernando Valley, which is filled with a surprising array of wild grass, knotted branches, and a variety of textures. His newest work is a series based on two sparrows nests in the same yard. The nests are dense collages of mud and twigs as are the paintings, which try to achieve a likeness through recombining these natural materials.Oren Giladi graduated from the Pratt Institute with a BFA in Painting in 2008 and will be attending the Art Center College of Design MFA program beginning this fall.