UNFINISHED
FLIGHT at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
WINGS
OF WITNESS / UNFINISHED FLIGHT
assemblage
works that confront the tragedy of genocide
Jeffrey
Schrier assembles massive sculptural works configured as
shimmering winged forms that are installed in museums, institutions
and public spaces. The works utilize 11 million can tabs collected
from all fifty states and eight countries by the middle school in
Mahomet Illinois, amassed to recognize the number of lives destroyed
in the Holocaust. Millions of tabs Schrier additionally acquired
numerically reference lives cut short by continuing acts of
inhumanity. Through Schrier's programs, over sixty-thousand
participants have constructed can tab elements, feather-like
structures that Schrier uses as the "clay-like" sculptural
material for his immense assemblage works, expressions of hope
developing out of tragedy.
WINGS
FOR WARSAW
Painted
montage monoprint 35" X46"
Exhibited
through June 30, 2017, HUC-JIR Museum, NYC, in Paint by Numbers.
Schrier
generated the work above from an aerial photo of WINGS OF WITNESS
installation containing
6 million can tabs, 100 feet wide, 4.5 tons at the Holocaust
Memorial and
Educational Center of Nassau County, Welwyn Preserve, Glen Cove,
NY. The
montage includes images of the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto May, 1943.
