Art Review: 'Pivotal Moments: Select Works by Diane Gabriel,' BCA Center
"Bag of Tears" The other creation, "Bag of Tears," appears to the casual glance like a lady's purse with strands of clear plastic spilling out of it. The object loses its innocence with a closer look. Using a transfer technique, Gabriel imprinted the tea-dyed muslin purse with photographs that are dark in every sense of the word: images from the Holocaust and other 20th-century genocides. Gallery text explains that Gabriel was descended from European Jews and grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, N.Y. She claimed to have "a complex relat...
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