Heads With Rays
Gary Goldstein
1997
When I finished my undergraduate studies in political science, I knew that I wanted to do something with art. I began looking for career possibilities that could combine art. One of the things that I went to see was a medical sculpture. A woman, originally Hungarian. An immigrant who worked with cancer patients creating prosthetic devices for parts of their faces (ears, nose, eyes) that have been surgically removed. I remember watching her work with people, who suddenly removed bandages revealing gapping holes in the face and head. Seeing inside. Place that should have not been seen. Places that should be private. That experience, those images. Remained with me for so many years. That feeling of been able to see something private, something interior and hidden. Something that when revealed became monstrous.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 120
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 15x11x2
- 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.
