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Arline Fisch
b. 1931 in Brooklyn, NY; lives in San Diego, CA
Selected Exhibitions/Honors:
Contemporary Jewish Museum of San
Francisco, CA; National Gallery of Australia; Barbican, London;
Fulbright Grants
Grandmother’s Lace,
2008
Crocheted silver, color coated copper wire; 12" diameter
The “lace doily” of
Grandmother’s Lace
references the domestic nature
of the
Seder
.
It is surrounded by small colorful cups to contain the
ritual foods of the celebration, and is placed on a low pedestal to
allow for the placement of
matzo
underneath. The somewhat humble
and old fashioned technique of crochet suggests the continuity of
generations that is at the heart of the
Seder
.
Rosalyn A. Engelman
b. in Liberty, NY; lives in New York City
Selected Collections/Honors:
Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX;
Nigeran Embassy, Togo; War Tribunal Court, The Hague, Netherlands;
Lorenzo de’ Medici “Il Magnifico” Award at the Biennale for Contemporary
Art in Florence, Italy
Soldier,
2007-8
Plastic, metal, fabric, acrylic; 72" x 18" x 10"
“
My work concerns emotion, process, time, and color in reaction to inner
and external stimuli. Often fabric, metal, and other materials are used to
achieve my objective. In
Soldier,
these elements, particularly fabric, are used
to create a metaphor for the meaning of war. Fabric, meant to protect and
camouflage, reveals and becomes one with the soldier and part of the fabric
of her being; symbolic of inner and outer destruction.
Soldier
asks ‘how?’ and
‘
why?’”
Shoshana Comet
b. 1923 in Antwerp, Belgium; lives in New York City
Shoah: A DialogueWith God,
1970 [
Image on page 2.]
Wool tapestry, linen, wood; 76" x 40"
Shoshana Comet escaped from war-torn Belgium and France
via Portugal and arrived in the United States in 1941. She
took up weaving in 1968 and two years later created
Shoah:
A DialogueWith God,
which confronts the trauma that she
and her family experienced during the Holocaust. A
tefillin-
wrapped arm confronts the flames descending from above,
posing the unanswerable question of God’s presence, or
absence, during the Shoah.