Discipline: Visual Art

Gilah Hirsch

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Venice, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987
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Gilah Hirsch is a multi-disciplinary artist who works as a painter, writer, theorist, photographer, filmmaker, and lecturer. Hirsch earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967, and an M.F.A. in pictorial arts from UCLA in 1970 and has held the position of professor of art at California State University, Dominguez Hills (Los Angeles) since 1973. She works in a multidisciplinary manner including art, design, anthropology, architecture, theology, philosophy, psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, and world culture. An internationally exhibiting artist in over 250 exhibitions since 1968 including the Israel Biennale, the Whitney Museum (New York), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hungarian National Museum, Slovak National Museum, and many others. Hirsch’s work has been reviewed extensively worldwide, has appeared on covers and within dozens of international publications, along with articles and chapters about her life and work. She has also authored the book Demonic to Divine: The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin (Vehicule Press). Hirsch’s film Cosmography: The Writing of the Universe, an investigation into the relation between origin of alphabet, pattern in nature, and the neurology of perception and cognition, has received worldwide interdisciplinary notice. Her current film, Reading the Landscape, brings these concepts to children of all ages in 16 languages and cultures.

Studios

Eastman

Gilah Hirsch worked in the Eastman studio.

Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…

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