Comic Book
Gary Goldstein
1989
Comic Book was part of my return to making art and to the rediscovered influence of comics in my life. I was in my 30s and still very much influenced by my adolescent libido. Along with questions of identity and sexual identity. Comic Book was a kind of pattern book. A sampler. Which allowed me to look at comic images, to appropriate them. It became a background which would frame my drawings and collages. But it allowed my to both flatten out those images. To restrain them and make them into background noise. To create a space where I could create. I could live.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 34
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 34x29.5x3
- 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.
