French Hammer (Describing Labor) circular which she created almost 40

which she created almost 40 years ago for her first solo museum show in 1978 at the Detroit Institute of Arts

while in seventh grade

Fluent in the Language of Dreams

She explores ideas of pattern

she works with traditional craftsmen–tapping into their age-old techniques and knowledge–and introduces them to new materials and fabrication processes

French Hammer (Describing Labor) circular which she created almost 40Artist: Esther Shalev Gerz French Hammer (Describing Labor), 2012 Glass 13" x 4. 75" x 1. 75" Describing Labor draws on artist Esther Shalev Gerzs research into depictions of the worker from the late nineteenth through the mid twentieth century. Through video, audio, photography and a selection of historic artworks from the Wolfsonian FIU and the Margulies collections, Describing Labor invites the present to relate to the now rarely seen figure of