Group Tree #1 - 5.5" Tall, Colored Copper Wire
Volumes VI: Jewish Theological Seminary of America - New York, NY
Artists:
Leah Schechter Bennett - Gavriella Bernat-Kunin - Sarah Diamant - Arielle Firestone - Jennifer Gersch
Gregory A. Gilbert - Sophia Gilbert - Nellie Harris - Leora Herman - Amichai Lau-Lavie - Shifi Rathaus
Daniel Silberbusch - Ally Sterling - Marissa Allison Sterling - Sonia Gordon Walinsky
Installer/Co-Curator: Gregory A. Gilbert
Assistant Installer: Shifi Rathaus
Facilitator: Sarah Diamant
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Ally Sterling
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Daniel Heschel Silberbusch
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Daniel Heschel Silberbusch
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Sarah Diamant
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Arielle Firestorm / Sarah Diamant
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Nellie Harris / Sonia Gordon-Walinsky
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Amichai Lau-Lavie
Worn Torn / Shiva Shirts Collection
Ready-Made
2015
Jewish Law requires certain mourners to tear a visible garment in symbolic demonstration of grief. The garment, often a shirt, is then worn throughout the period of Shiva - the week of mourning that follows the funeral.
Serving as both private meaning-maker and public marker of mourning status, Shiva Shirts are often discarded once the Shiva period is over. And yet, they retain liminality, both cherished and reviled as souvenirs of sorrow.
In displaying the shirts worn by me, my family members and friends during recent loss of loved ones I want to retain the ruptured sense of sacred in everyday materials and the beauty lingering in loss.
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Sophia Gilbert
Ellen
Embroidery on Silk Dress
2015
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Daniel Heschel Silberbusch
Had Gadya Cycle:
וְאָתָא מַיָּא וְכָבָה לְנוּרָא
And Water Came And Put Out The Fire
2015
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Amichai Lau-Lavie
Worn Torn / Shiva Shirts Collection
Ready-Made
2015
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Leah Bennett
Vase of Flowers
Mosaic
11 x 14"
2015
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Arielle Firestone
Me / The Fairy / Celtic Mermaid (details)
Watercolor
12 x 9" (each)
2015
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Sonia Gordon-Walinsky
Mother and Child #2 (detail)
Ink and Mixed Papers
8.5 x 11"
2015
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Sarah Diamant
Assorted works (details)
2015
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ST100 / Tree #40 - James' Tree / Tree #15
Wire
9.5" / 3" / 9.5"
2014 / 2015 / 2014
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Sophia Gilbert
Ellen (detail)
Embroidery on Silk Dress
2015
"You could see all the work she did" |
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Sophia Gilbert
Ellen (detail)
Embroidery on Silk Dress
2015
"She made us feel we were just what she wanted" |
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Sophia Gilbert
Ellen (detail)
Embroidery on Silk Dress
2015
"Beauty" |
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Gavriella Bernat-Kunin
Invisibly Bound
Colored Pencils and Acrylic on Plexiglass
24 x 34"
2015
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Jennifer Gersch
The Jenn-iza (detail)
Mixed Media on Canvas
30 x 48"
2015
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Industrial Tree #1
Assemblage
2015
Although I'm a visual artist, I believe that music is the highest art form, and I wanted to represent that with a sculpture. The base of this tree is a stereo receiver/amplifier that I had for nearly 20 years, which finally stopped working: a reciever that over the years I've listened to countless hours of music through. The receiver - representing music here - is giving birth to creation (represented by the tree). |
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