Full Description
Orna Ben-Ami sculpts by cutting and welding iron. She also creates unique artworks by attaching her iron sculptures to flat photographic prints. The artist first started to learn gold and silversmithing at the Jerusalem Technological Centre, before studying sculpture at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC between 1990 and 1992. She became fully engaged in sculpture in 1994, using iron as the principal raw material both for her artistic expression and for the preservation of private and collective memories, particularly the memories of transient and displaced people.This retrospective volume presents 195 key artworks covering the major influences Ben-Ami has drawn upon since the early 1990s.
Contents
Foreword by Dr. Jack Rasmussen
Introduction by David M. Furchgott
Dialogue with the Artist by Dr. Jack Rasmussen
The Iron Weight of Grief by Ethan Bronner
Letter from a Refugee by Aziz Kalo
Displacement and Memory
Neither Here nor There - A poem by the artist
George Kadish's photographs
And Man was Forgotten by Dr. Gideon Ofrat
Tearing "Kri'ah" by Hana Kofler
Public and Private Commissions
The Sources of Orna Ben-Ami's Art
Her Luminous Name and Fortified Hand by Riki Daskal
Orna Ben-Ami, Curriculum Vitae
Index
Artist's Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
