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Time and Memory   Page Five

Harold's Bar Mitzvah (1977) by Bart Friedman is a touching pseudo-documentary examining a family celebrating the coming of age of a middle class Long Island youth. The work, in the artist's words, serves as "a portrait of an event in a boy's like and a portrait of his grandfather who lives worlds and ages apart."
During a trip to Morocco,. Sholom Gorewitz reflected on his feeling about his Hebraic roots, especially as they pertain to the Second Commandment -- forbidding the creation of idols. In Excavations (1979), images of fieldwork at Tel Gezer are processed in observance of this commandment. Gorewitz distills a visually charged work of light and color that is also a subtle meditation on the division between the Jews and Moslems who inhabit this region of the Middle East.
Time and Memory: Video Art and Identity has been made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council of the Arts, Mrs. Albert A. List, SONY Corporation of America., and Barbara Pine, in memory of Morris Goldman.

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