Ronald Feldman Gallery | Yishay Garbasz

Yishay Garbasz

Yishay Garbasz

Bikini, Khao Sok, Day 22, 2011

from "The Fence"

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.

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Mar 25, 2014

Huffington Post Group Show 10 Transgender Artists Who Are Changing Contemporary Art

Mar 05, 2014

New York Times Group Show Yishay Garbasz: Ritual and Reality

Jun 17, 2017

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

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Yishay Garbasz

Bomb shelter and photo-op backdrop, Igil-ri, Cheorwon, inside Civilian Control Line, 2014

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Yishay Garbasz

Bomb shelter and photo-op backdrop, Igil-ri, Cheorwon, inside Civilian Control Line, 2014

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Tunnel Road No. 2, 2004

Yishay Garbasz

Kirk Crescent, Protestant neighborhood towards Catholic neighborhood, Belfast, 2014

Yishay Garbasz

Rice field just before the harvest with target of North Korean soldier as a scarecrow, Baengnyeongdo, 2014

Yishay Garbasz

Near Jerusalem, 2004

Yishay Garbasz

Sawahre near Jerusalem, 2004

from "The Fence"

Ritual and Reality, 2014

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Ritual and Reality, 2014

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Ritual and Reality, 2014

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Ritual and Reality, 2014

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Ritual and Reality, 2014

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Severed Connections, 2015

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Severed Connections, 2015

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Severed Connections, 2015

installation view

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

Ritual and Reality, 2014

installation view

Severed Connections, 2015

installation view

Severed Connections, 2015

installation view

Severed Connections, 2015

installation view

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.