Invisible
Mixed media (mirror, wood, plexi-glass, acrylic paint , gold leaf, found eye glasses, magnifying glass, metal wire, paper and cotton fabric) A piece about experiencing, often unintentional, and always uninformed anti-Semitism in everyday American language and culture. The text etched into the mirrors reveals the kaddish in hebrew text, (the Jewish prayer for the dead.), 25" x 40" x 5", 1998 The text etched into the plexi-glass and mirror reads as follows: J/E/W/but you/don’t look/like a
Colloquialism
Mixed media (mirror, wood, red plexi-glass, gold leaf, found plastic letters, metal wire and ashes) A piece about racial and religious intolerance inherent in language. The etched word in the mirror reveals the U.S. dollar bills beneath. 72" x 38" x 3", 2001 The etched red plexi-glass and mirror reads as follows: J E W / them/ down
Growing up in the shadow
Mixed media installation (mirror, family photographs/picture postcards, plexi-glass, found metal frames, vinyl press type, wooden table, artist book entitled "?" An installation of 18 vintage family photographs and handwritten postcards of persons (family friends and relatives) unknown to me who perished in the holocaust originally belonging to my Bubbie (grandmother) , 108" x 45" x 20, 2001 The text on wall above reads as follows: My Bubbie kept a red and white cardboard cigar box on a high shelf in a closet, above her plastic-shrouded clothing saved for another season. When I was a child, I would drag her gray and red, vinyl-upholstered, chrome-plated step stool from her kitchen to that closet.
Jew girl/jewish mother/self-portrait
metal colander, wooden puzzle parts, hair, 16"x 12"x 8", 2004
