JERRY SARIG
JERRY SARIG
ARTIST STATEMENT Jerry Sarig’s practice explores the topic of childhood; memories and her own early drawings inspire her craft. The examination of this subject matter in her art is also an exploration of the self, consciously and unconsciously bringing into expression the same imaginary childhood characters, time and again, although in different forms and textures. She uses embroidery, ceramics, acrylic and oil paintings, sometimes independently and sometimes in combination. Her works are a visual collage, mixing shapes, drawings, and threads. Jerry has been a multidisciplinary creator for more than twenty years. Trained as an architect, she owned, designed, and managed her own fashion brand, JERRY, for more than a decade. Artistic expression was always evident in her fashion. However, after 17 years of working in the industry, she decided to embark on a new journey. Whereas in fashion precision guided her work, her art challenges this conception: unattached threads in her embroidery; unfinished borders in her ceramics; disfigured faces with disproportional mouths and eyes in her paintings; are all components of pieces that, although apparently imperfect, are presented as aesthetic artifacts. All of her works are made by hand in an almost meditative process, and using intuition as their mold. Since her early days as an artist, Jerry became fascinated by her own recollections, scratching images in her notebook as they jumped into her mind and transforming them into large embroidered canvases and metal-colored paintings. Her characters are ageless, genderless, fluid, inviting the viewer to stand in the space between memory and embodiment. 1< Jerry was born in Haifa and currently works from her studio in Tel Aviv. Her work has been presented, among other places, at the Israeli Design Week in Taiwan and at the Tel Aviv’s Arts and Design Biennale. She recently obtained a Master of Design Management at the Bezalel Art and Design Academy.
Want to contact? email me jerryshaisarig@gmail.com
