The Making of Golemess

GOLEMESS I
- PROTECTRESS FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

SPIRITUAL MATTER IN CONTEMPORARY ART
PLATT GALLERY UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM
LOS ANGELES CA 1995

 

GOLEMESS II
PROTECTRESS FOR THE ARTS

DIALOGUES WITH THE DEITY EXHIBITION
ARTOPIA GALLERY
LOS ANGELES CA 1995

 

GOLEMESS III
PROTECTRESS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

IN THE BEGINNING -- EARTH ELEGIES II

ELEMENTS EXHIBITION
BARNSDALL ART PARK MUNICIPAL GALLERY
LOS ANGELES CA 1998/99

 

GOLEMESS IV
PROTECTRESS OF TRUTH

DEDICATED TO ANA MENDIETA

TERRAIN BIENNIAL LA
LOS ANGELES CA 2017

Gathering materials from a variety of Los Angeles venues, which included earth from the Getty and Skirball Cultural Centers, then under construction, the site of this first GOLEMESS installation was the University of Judaism, located in the Sepulveda Pass near these significant new cultural institutions.  

 

GOLEMESS I was created in collaboration with the Budapest sculptor Levente Thury as part of our multimedia installation/talk for the Platt Gallery's "Spiritual Matter in Contemporary Art" series.

She was the centerpiece around which our Artist Talk was presented and the installation reconfigured various facets from our

"Threads That Bind Us - Earth Elegies I "

Yeshiva University Museum
"Woman of Valor"
Exhibition

 

Platt Gallery, University of Judaism
Los Angeles California


 

At the conclusion of this installation, the University of Judasim allowed us to resite the GOLEMESS I in an area immediately adjacent to the Sculpture Garden. Returning her to the earth. subsequently made it possible for us to retrieve her remaining core for GOLEMESS II, III and IV.

 

 

 


With freedom of expression under attack, not only in this country but throughout the world,
while ancient regional and religious intolerances once again are rearing a face of hatred and bigotry,
we trust that Golemess may provide a protective force for rational thought and reasoned actions.

 

In the creation of GOLEMESS,
it is our hope that the continuing empowerment of the female within society
will serve to protect its very pillars. 

 

 

GOLEMESS I - PROTECTRESS FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
MULTI-MEDIA SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION

SPIRITUAL MATTER IN CONTEMPORARY ART

PLATT GALLERY,UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM
LOS ANGELES,CA 1995
KABBALAH SERIES


Earth, Sand, Water, Plant Material

Dimensions Variable

 

 

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GOLEMESS II - PROTECTRESS FOR THE ARTS
MULTI-MEDIA SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION

DIALOGUES WITH THE DEITY EXHIBITION

ARTOPIA GALLERY
LOS ANGELES,CA 1995
KABBALAH SERIES

Earth, Sand, Water, Plant Material,
Five Video Monitors & Digital Sound

Dimensions Variable

 

 

GOLEMESS III - PROTECTRESS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
MULTI AND NEW MEDIA SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION

IN THE BEGINNING -- EARTH ELEGIES II

ELEMENTS EXHIBITION

BARNSDALL ART PARK MUNICIPAL GALLERY
LOS ANGELES,CA 1998/99
KABBALAH SERIES

Earth, Sand, Water, Plant Material,
3 Video Projections -- 1 interactive,
Computer Website Station,
2 Digital SoundScapes

Dimensions Variable

 

GOLEMESS IV - PROTECTRESS OF TRUTH
DEDICATED TO ANA MENDIETA

TERRAIN BIENNIAL LA
LOS ANGELES CA 2017
KABBALAH SERIES

Earth, Sand, Water, Plant Material,
Two Computers & Digital SoundScape

Dimensions Variable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intertwined within the fabric

Threads of many colors

Savored for the moment

Our place in the universe



Man is but a strand
in the web of life

 

 



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