Amy Gelb "A Story I Tell Myself"

$2,400.00

2021

24x24 framed

Story I Tell Myself from the series Liminal Space

Photo-based fiber art, organza, hand felted organic wool

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2021

24x24 framed

Story I Tell Myself from the series Liminal Space

Photo-based fiber art, organza, hand felted organic wool

2021

24x24 framed

Story I Tell Myself from the series Liminal Space

Photo-based fiber art, organza, hand felted organic wool

 

Amy Gelb is an American and Israeli photo-based fiber artist and photographer who lives and works in Miami. Through the use of photography, textile, and recycled materials, her work explores the historical and collective narratives of women inter-generationally, and the impact that belief systems have on our mental and physical health and well-being. By examining the social fabric of the female story, Gelb weaves together the multiple layers of women’s past, present, and future selves. She draws upon her own familial history in order to reveal the lessons inherited from our matriarchs. Her landscapes explore historical sites and their ability to question geographically where history begins. Gelb’s major body of work, As Is, researched through interviews and photography the unsolicited messages and responses women have received and internalized about their bodies. Functioning as an archive of material on women’s bodies, the work was collected in a monograph titled As Is: Women Exposed, published in 2018 by Daylight Books, and covered widely in domestic and international publications. In 2016, Gelb produced a photographic documentary with VIDA, a non-profit legal assistance organization in Florida that advocates for the rights of immigrant survivors of violent crimes, domestic violence, sexual assault and sex trafficking.

Gelb graduated from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1991 with a BFA in Acting. She earned an MSW in Clinical Social Work from NYU in 1994.