Jeffrey Schrier is at an exhibition till May 3 at Hudson Valley MOCA .
His 7 foot work Bridegroom of Blood, Draggin’ Me, is part of his collaboration with the Getty Center manuscript department. He has been mining Hebrew medieval manuscript details for hybrid beasts that he combined with dead flowers and leaves, that he made human in size.
‘So You think you’re too old to…’ a juried exhibition that showcases artists whose mature years have enriched their creative powers.  |
Artist statement:
For my 7 ft high interpretation of the manuscript 2″ detail, I used scans of my left foot at age 80 and my right foot at age 36, mined from my Dreaming Self (assembled body-part transfers fused to a bed-sheet slept on during years of actively recording my dreams). The King size bed sheet construction was commissioned for Science Digest’s 1981 issue on Sleep and Dreams and first exhibited in tangent with David Hockney’s cityscape of assembled polaroids, at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery by director Andrew Stasik,1985. For my 1990 solo at the Yeshiva University Museum I spread the Dreaming Self bedsheet on a mattress for Yacov’s Dream, covering my body scans with my feet protruding from an image of the tunic from the Jacob’s Dream fresco of the 3rd century Dura Europos Synagogue, Syria. In ‘Bridegroom of Blood, Draggin’ Me’ my feet at age 36 and age at 80 in the beast’s jaws, reflect the last 44 years of my nearly lifelong artistic journey. The Dancing feet are mined from my Osibisa album cover illustration for Warner Music, 1973.
more: jeffreyschrier.org