Bound Sketchbook, Heads with Rays
Gary Goldstein
1992
I was fascinated by the hard cover. Black and red. Thick and substantial. That feeling gave me a feeling of security. Where there were waves. Sharp-Toothed waves that were beautiful and threatening with their sharpness. I was so inclosed within the borders of my own existence, with rays. And antennas. Messages to the outside world, to not come any closer. The images. The heads. Were deformed and shrunken bodies. The book over the years, through chemical interactions, kept working and changing. The unexpected and uncontrolled changes, created something much more mysterious and beautiful from anything I could imagine and make.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 60
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 14x13.5x2
- Publication: Independent
- Place of publication: Jerusalem
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Gary Goldstein was born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA (1950) and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He is an artist and a lecturer of Visual Arts. He completed his M.F.A. in Visual Arts at “Pratt Institute”, Brooklyn, NY, USA (1977). Goldstein Immigrated to Israel in 1977 and was a member of Kibbutz Afikim for four years. He established a Fine Arts program in the Jordan Valley regional High school “Beit Yerach”. From 2012 to the present, he resides and creates art in Tel Aviv. Gary Goldstein concentrated during the decade of the 1980s on creating around 150 unique Artists’ Books. 14 out of them were published in limited additions of 14 to 1,000 copies. From the 1990s Goldstein draws mostly on pages of secondhand books. He created hundreds of three-dimensional objects. In 2007 he was awarded the prize of Fine Art of the Culture Minister, and in 2015 he received the Arik Einstein prize of Fine Art of the Culture Minister for Life-Time Achievement.
