Pig Skin Bound Sketch Book
Gary Goldstein
1996
It is rare when I look back in certain periods of my life and work, I see it in the light and colors, in the certainty within I make images. There is something so intimate in the size of the book and pages. Each page radiates a glow, created in large parts using pastels and colored pencils and rubbing them with paper towels and tissues. Almost polishing each page, like a pair of shoes.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 150
- Type of binding: Soft
- Dimensions (cm): 12X9.5X2
- 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.
