Ghosting

Blue pigment and a spray bottle.

Lipstick Woes

Acrylic, 30x40 canvas

Here are detail pics so you can fully enjoy the piece.

Prehistoric Glass Figurines

The contemporary and prehistoric glass female figurines were an outcome of an assignment to reproduce a prehistoric ‘art’ piece, known as “the nun” or “flattened figure” with the original stone tools. The figure later manifested in another wooden carving I created, alongside a more contemporary female figure. I made an imprint of the carvings onto a sand mixture, then poured hot clear glass into the imprint. The piece allows the viewer to contemplate ideas of beauty taken out of context and juxtaposed, implications of different material properties, the artist’ hand, object production, as well as the ties between the past and present.

These were displayed at the Gallatin Arts Festival.

They are about a handspan wide and tall.

Prehistoric Figurine Carvings

Inspired by an archaeology assignment to recreate a prehistoric female figurine, 'the flattened figurine' or 'the nun'.

I first carved it in talc with my friend for the assignment. Then I carved it in wood to press into sand, and pour hot glass onto the imprint. (It's in the kiln now!)

City-Scape I

Inspired by Surrealist in-scapes, I use my home, New York, and my instincts to generate the creation of abstract ‘city-scapes’. My first glass city-scape was this fused and slumped plate. I love the dynamism and continuous movement of a circular form. The glass's sheen also emphasize the romantic visual articulation of a bustling city.

Glass Kiln Work, Turtle

I sculpted clay, made it into a wax, cast it into a plaster, steamed out the wax and pulled out the clay, carefully placed colored frit and clear cullet, hours and hours later it emerges from the kiln: one beautiful turtle.

I think I'll call him Squirt. (A Finding Nemo honorary) 

Printmaking!

Some of the last prints I made. The Reap Pete series had 18 prints. They are 3 different parts with various sculptural elements (egg and wrapper).

Did you find the words? Egg Anne (again), Wrapper Titian (repetition), and Reap Pete (repeat).

Knife Painting, City

In The Blink Of An Eye

Selections of a few first pages of a small animation.

Eye > planet > volcano > lava > energy > neutron > chromosome > mitosis > cell > eye.

Jerusalem Speaks

This piece was returning to a dialogue I had lost with God. I returned to that dialogue when I returned to Jewish text and, similar to the other artists, it was connected to my return to Israel too. I created 12 small 8 x 10 textured acrylic paintings of the stone in Jerusalem and its surrounding hills. I placed the paintings into a 4 x 3 layout that mirrors the priestly tool for divine communication in the temple known as the Hoshen.