Artist, writer, filmmaker, theorist, lecturer, facilitator…
Artist, writer, filmmaker, theorist, lecturer, facilitator…
Immersion (diptych), 2015
Solo Exhibition
PØST Gallery, LA, 2017
Grounded in Light, 2020
Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch Artist Retrospective
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, 2022
In the foreground: Aurora Impassionata, 2008
Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch Artist Retrospective
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, 2022
In times of horror and global insanity, how can an artist in full conscience celebrate life?
Doubt as to purpose and use of time and energy is what wakes me daily; guilt regarding my comfort and freedom plagues me. How can one possibly consider new creativity when so much suffering riddles the world?
And yet, the power of art can raise the spirit.
Amidst this bleakness, I struggle with beginning something new. I know that once again an image will emerge to include and transcend the present. Trust the process. Something of consequence will be stroked into life.
In times of horror and global insanity, how can an artist in full conscience celebrate life?
Doubt as to purpose and use of time and energy is what wakes me daily; guilt regarding my comfort and freedom plagues me. How can one possibly consider new creativity when so much suffering riddles the world?
And yet, the power of art can raise the spirit.
Amidst this bleakness, I struggle with beginning something new. I know that once again an image will emerge to include and transcend the present. Trust the process. Something of consequence will be stroked into life.
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BELOW – Several paintings from Radiance • Murmurations and Emanations – my solo exhibition at Beyond Baroque, Venice, California, March/April, 2024. 88 artworks were on display in the gallery’s 3-story vintage space.
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BELOW – Several paintings from Radiance – my solo exhibition at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California, March/April, 2024. 88 artworks were on display in the gallery’s 3-story vintage space.
Closer, 2023
acrylic on canvas, 42″ x 42″
Emanations at the Lake, Series II, 2014
Numbers: 1-6, acrylic on canvas, 14″ x 11″
Glimmer Series #8, Solace, 2016
acrylic on papyrus, 24″ x 36″
Glimmer Series #9, Recapitulation, 2016
acrylic on papyrus, 24.5″ x 36″
Dorado Series, Approaching Center, 2018
acrylic, gold, silver and bronze leaf on papyrus, 25.5″ x 37″
Dorado Series, Rising, 2018
acrylic, gold, silver and bronze leaf on papyrus, 36.75″ x 25″
Glimmer Series #6, Ascendance, 2014
acrylic on papyrus, 36″ x 25″
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I also presented an evening lecture: Aleph to DNA: The Healing Power of Form | Artist as Scientist in a Reflective Universe – a video recording is available, click the button, below…
Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch
Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Magnificent Retrospective of an Extraordinary Artist’s Life & Work
Review by Jay Bremyer, Author and Juris Doctor, November 8, 2023
Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Donna Stein editor, interviewer, and curator of the related exhibit, with essays by other scholars and 47 mostly full page [9.5 x 11 inches, high quality full color] plates of Hirsch’s paintings and 66 smaller figures, an artist biography and bibliography, awards list, record of major shows, and an index, totaling 182 pages, published by Skira.
This retrospective survey beautifully captures the arc and context of Hirsch’s extraordinary, multidisciplinary art and life. Rooted in soul searching as a young girl in the 1950s Jewish community of Montreal, at an early age Hirsch left a vibrant but difficult family to pursue her life’s purpose. Along the way she spent extended times alone in nature, traveled the world and lived in many cultures – encountering extraordinary scientists, teachers and healers.
Hirsch’s study of naturally occurring patterns that correspond to foundational alphabets led to her work on Cosmography, The Writing of the Universe, her films, her writings and presentations at many scientific conferences on psychoneuroimmunology and the restorative function of art and vision moving out from the interior of the body.
Using her cognitive discoveries and consciousness skills, Hirsch marries modern science and ancient mystic practices. As she states in the acknowledgements, her lifelong determination to understand led her to concentrate on “the relation between form in nature, form in alphabet, form in neurophysiology as they reflect each other and may lead toward healing.” This collection takes us step by step into the amazing and transformative world of Gilah Yelin Hirsch. I highly recommend it to you.