Gilah Yellin Hirsch
November
28, 2016
Exhibition: Emanation, Radiance, Glimmer,
Murmuration
An exhibit of works by Gilah Yelin Hirsch
Dates: January 14 – February 18, 2017
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12 pm – 6 pm
Reception:
Saturday, January 14, 7 – 9 pm
Artist
Talk: Saturday, February 4, 7 pm
PØST
1206 Maple Avenue, #515
Los Angeles, CA 90015, USA
new@postlosangeles.org
Emanation,
Radiance, Glimmer, Murmuration
PØST is
pleased to host an exhibit of works by Gilah
Yelin Hirsch. Hirsch will be exhibiting her 2014-16 paintings.
“My
paintings are about the ineffable, the ascent toward numinous where light
reigns.
I
embark on the mysterious voyage toward revelation with a thought, memory, word,
embodied in a charged swirl of a multi-colored brush. The discovery process
continues with layer upon layer of call and response to the developing image as
more associations, thoughts, memories, or patterns are triggered. Elevating,
ritualistic non-specific forms emerge. Fascinated, I am driven by emerging clues
toward finding the elusive entirety. I am hooked into an experiential dig, an
archeology of elemental form analogous to the careful search for images
scratched and painted into caves preserved beneath layers of time and history,
slowly illuminated for the first time. I am ultimately persuaded that an
original life has been conjured when the new form breathes on its own and
ceases to ask for attention - when light and shadow have achieved a unique
reality that is welcoming, resonant, relevant and healing.“
Gilah
Yelin Hirsch,
(BA UC Berkeley, MFA UCLA), is a painter, writer, theorist, filmmaker, lecturer and
Professor of Art at California State University Dominguez Hills (Los Angeles).
She works in a multidisciplinary manner including art, design, anthropology,
architecture, theology, philosophy, psychology, psychoneuroimmunology and world
culture. An internationally exhibiting artist in close to 300 exhibitions since
1968 in venues including the Whitney Museum (NYC), Skirball Museum (LA, CA),
Santa Monica Museum (CA), Jewish Museum (NYC), National Museum of Hungary,
Budapest, Slovak National Museum, Jerusalem Biennale, Israel. Hirsch’s
paintings have been acquired by many major public and private collections,
including the Skirball Museum, LA, CA; Alexander Braun Collection, Budapest;
ArtLab, Civitella d’Aglioni, Italy; National Museum, Slovakia; Pintek
Collection, Slovakia. Hirsch’s work has been reviewed extensively worldwide,
has appeared on covers and within dozens of international publications, along
with articles and chapters about her life and work, e.g. LA Rising: SoCal
Artists Before 1980; Subtle Energies: Bridging Art & Science; Bridges
Magazine, ISSSEEM; Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender
Issues; Subtle Energy & Energy Medicine; Feminists Who Changed
America; Los Angeles Times; New York Times; The Reenchantment of Art; The Power
of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s; History & Impact and
Artists of the Spirit: New Prophets in Art & Mysticism.
Hirsch’s
own articles and theoretical papers have been published in scholarly journals internationally,
e.g. MIT’s Leonardo - Journal of Art and Science; Women’s Studies: An
Interdisciplinary Journal. She has also authored the book Demonic to
Divine: The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin (Véhicule Press). Hirsch’s film
Cosmography: The Writing of the Universe (1995), an investigation into the
relation between origin of alphabet, pattern in nature and the neurology
of perception and cognition, has received worldwide interdisciplinary
notice. Hirsch’s numerous awards, honors, grants, fellowships include US
National Endowment for the Arts; Banff Center for the Arts,
Canada; MacDowell Colony, NH; Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy; Tamarind
Institute of Lithography, NM; St. Martin's School of Art, London,
England; Syracuse University, NY; Morris Graves Foundation.
Hirsch’s
archives are housed in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
Gilah
Yelin Hirsch was born in Montreal, Canada, and resides in Venice, California.
A
complete resume is available on her website. www.gilah.com
For more information about
the exhibition, please contact HK Zamani at new@postlosangeles.org
