Visit the Studio of Artist Helene Aylon in NYC
Item Number: 158
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Visit artist Helène Aylon's West Village studio in New York City and see her work up close, including "The God Project: Nine Houses Without Women." Have tea with the artist and the friend you bring along. The artist will make a drawing for you in a copy she will give you of her memoir, Whatever is Contained Must Be Released; My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist published by The Feminist Press in 2012.
Aylon has shown her work at the Jewish Museum, the Andy Warhol Museum and the Ein Harod Museum and elsewhere.
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A R T I S T S T A T E M E N T
"The 70's work was about the visceral and orgasmic body and the inevitability of change; The 80's was about the earth, halting the arms race, uniting women from warring nations; In the 90's my aim was to shine a feminist lens with scholarly inquiry into ancient texts and practices that omit or deny the presence/input of women; In the 00's the G-D work has become more autobiographical regarding my ultra orthodox background.
In 1979, I was part of the first conference on Eco-feminism in Amherst, Mass; I saw the body of the land and the visceral body as connected.
After hearing Dr. Helen Caldicott speak of the Arms Race, I drove an Earth Ambulance to military S.A.C. sites in the 80's to dramatize concern for the health of the Earth and concern for the danger of the Arms Race.
After dealing with the military mindset throughout the 80's, I realized early in the 90's that G-D (whatever G-D may be) had to be liberated from patriarchal projections and that I had to deal with my orthodox identity issues."