Jeffrey Schrier was born
December 7, 1943, on the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Jeffrey attended the Cleveland Institute of Art and California
Institute of the Arts on merit scholarships, the Art Students League
New York, The New School Psychology Department, and SUNY Purchase
Judaic Studies Department. He was a faculty member of Parsons School
of Design from 1981-91. He has been a guest lecturer/Artist in
Residence at Syracuse University and the State University at Buffalo,
as well as for numerous educational institutions all over the country.
Museums that have presented his work include: the Historical Society
Museum and the Cooper Hewitt in Manhattan; The N.Y. State Museum
Albany; International Museum of Photography, Rochester; Museo
Electrographia, Cuenca Spain; long running solo exhibitions at the
Yeshiva University Museum, Manhattan and at the Hebrew Union College
New York Gallery of the Skirball Museum; etc. ; as well as numerous
galleries.
Fortune 500 corporate
commissions have included AT&T, IBM, Exxon Corporation, COMSAT,
CBS and Warner Communications, RCA, as well as major commissions for
religious institutions. In 1997 Jeffrey completed a Holocaust Memorial
to honor Raoul Wallenberg, commissioned for installation at the Simon
Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Installations exhibited
in prominent public spaces include the Ellis Island Museum, Grand
Central Station, New York Telephone Building, etc.
Mr. Schrier's current
work reflects his interest in contrasting techniques of high
technology with historical and ancient subject matter. By utilizing
recycled and discarded material, Schrier explores the possibilities of
lending significance and symbolic meaning to the mundane. His work has
been documented in Idea International(Tokyo), Illustre'(Zurich and
Paris), Newsweek International Edition, the New York Times, and
covered in the news by ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC London, and NPR. Jeffrey was
nominated for a Media Award for his artistic contributions for The
International Year Of Disabled Persons. His Art has been utilized for
fund raising for Russian and Ethiopian Jews, and by National Hadassah,
for their youth rescue and education programs in Israel. Jeffrey's
picture book on the rescue of the black Jews of Ethiopia released by
Millbrook Press has received the Sidney Taylor Honor Award ( see
Amazon.com).
Jeffrey fully illustrated a new Haggadah, The Passover Seder book,
titled "A Night Of Questions", edited by Rabbi Joy Levitt
and Rabbi Michael Strassfeld (see Jewish Reconstructionist Federation).
Jeffrey is currently at work on a monumental memorial sculpture made
from eleven million soda can tabs collected by school children,
representing innocent lives lost in the Holocaust. Many aspects of
this sculpture are being created with the participation of youth from
across the nation.
See Photo
Metamorphosis for a chronology of images in this project. A slide
show of other selected works is available by viewing Winged
Images.
