Yishay Garbasz
Yishay Garbasz
Biography
Yishay Garbasz finds significance in numbers, often using them to frame aspects of her personal history, memory, and imagination. Garbasz, who is transgender, previously explored issues of identity during her sexual reassignment surgery, documenting her body in the process. “I’m a very tactile and kinesthetic thinker, this is how I enter things, I enter the world through a very personal space, through my heart.” In two subsequent projects, Garbasz documented the path of her mother’s path to a Nazi extermination camp, counting the number of steps and photographing her progress periodically, and branded her arm with her mother’s prison camp identification number. These numbers constitute abstracted markers of real-world experiences that Garbasz translates back into materiality through her performances and documentary photographs.
Select Press
Huffington Post Group Show 10 Transgender Artists Who Are Changing Contemporary Art
New York Times Group Show Yishay Garbasz: Ritual and Reality
Thiird Magazine Group Show Artist Re-Creates the Route of her Mother's Footsteps
Exhibitions
May 08 – Jun 19, 2020 Group Show Prescient: A Five-by-Five Virtual Exhibition
Jun 18 – Jul 18, 2019 Group Show Summer 2019
May 23 – Aug 17, 2017 Group Show Art on the Front Lines
May 08 – Jun 12, 2015 Yishay Garbasz Severed Connections: Do what I say or they will kill you
Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. The gallery is located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City and exhibits performance, photography, new media, film, painting, drawing and sculpture.
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