A commission by a client who wanted to surprise his wife with a very special work of original art to celebrate not only their wedding anniversary, but also to signify her completing a regimen of successful treatments in overcoming a personal health challenge. Symbolic stairs and steps become platforms to a journey manifesting joy and […]
Commissioned by The William Breman Jewish Home, my concept and copyrighted designs for the Jewish Celebrations quilt’s 15 blocks and border were sewn with applique and embroidery by many talented women of the metro Atlanta Jewish community. To see the Jewish holidays all together as one permanent installation, while having a Torah surrounded by the
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Dedicated to the memory of my father-in-law, Harry Rosefsky, of blessed memory (1904-2002), this portrait incorporates a span of four generations of Harry’s family. Using original ephemera (found papers) from a man who never threw anything away, or with photographs saved in boxes or yellowed envelopes, I used those materials to portray Harry, with the
News clippings, ticket stubs, passports, photographs with exemplary well organized hand written “to do” lists from a father who had recently passed away, his son brought these items in a large suitcase, for me to use only a portion of this ephemera collection to create a meaningful mixed media collage that would capture his father’s
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A teenage boy’s portrait using the art of paper cutouts, in what is known as “drawing with scissors,” a method and words attributed to Henri Matisse, who enjoyed cutting directly into color paper with his scissors, instead of first using a line drawing as a template or pattern. Unlike a photograph or perhaps a more
Temple Kehillah Chaim in Roswell,Georgia commissioned me to create several designs for their renovated sanctuary project in 2004. One of designs titled “A Community Embracing Torah,” was installed over the sanctuary’s ark. On either side of the ark, I designed eight additional windows with a theme of Jewish holidays and festivals, including Shabbat. Another TKC
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One in a series of 15 works entitled “Rituals,” these collages combine the historical significance of Jewish holidays, festivals, life cycle events as well as contemporary ritual practices inspired by my family, with traditions passed down to me from generation to generation. My grandmothers and mother lit their “Shabbos” candlesticks each Friday evening, often covering
One in a series of 13 works entitled “Tradition”, based on my own family experiences, these drawings manifest an intergenerational focus on how families carry out Jewish traditions at home or in the synagogue. In 1997, soon after moving to Atlanta, the William Breman Jewish Home commissioned me to create illustration drawings to express Jewish
Using a large collection of saved family glossy photographs, by reshaping them into floating paper cutouts, original images become disentangled to become intimate abstract compositions, no longer knowing the connections once made between familiar faces and places. The photography cutout series, Disentangled, along with other current work in this same genre, create their own visual
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