The Eldest Son
Gary Goldstein
1991
When I was 27 my wife and oldest daughter moved to Israel. First to a kibbutz and then Jerusalem. The culture, for me, was strange, unknown. I didn’t recognize the symbols. Through illustration of children books and very simplistic graphic posters, I began to teach myself and familiarize myself with those strange symbols and the history which they reflected. At the same time, the symbols and the pictographic drawings that I made reflected a feeling of helplessness, and being small in the world.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 68
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 18.5X13X1
- 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.
