Paperback Scetch Book
Gary Goldstein
1987
After uprooting my family and moving back to the United States for two years, I stopped making art for three years and showing art for five. This sketch book was one of my first efforts at a return to making art. It was a joint effort. The early pages were done by my older daughter and reflected a search for a beginning, a way of returning to making art. I had worked in New York, in the design studio of an advertising agency. Something that would later influence my fascination with books, with intimate sizes, and with the tools of the trade of making graphic pieces on paper. I used stamps, and pens and a variety of pencils, water colors and inks.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 160
- Type of binding: Soft Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 21.5X13.8X2
- Publication: Independent
- Place of publication: New York & 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.
