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About the Artist
Yael Seidemann was born in Israel in 1961, the youngest child in a family of seven. Her parents emigrated from Yemen in 1955. Yael studied arts and crafts at the Talpiot Teacher's College in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her studies were financed by scholarships received from Amit and B'nai Brith. Yael Seidemann's final project at Talpiot prior to her graduation was a papercut depicting King David. Yael won third prize for the papercut. She graduated from Talpiot in 1984.
Her papercuts provide a fresh, new look at ancient art. They include Jewish themes such as Biblical themes (The Twelve Tribes, The Seven Species), Jewish love themes, quotations from the Torah and Jerusalem. Because Yael draws on Biblical themes, many of her works depict nature. Yael's work Kishoshanah Bayn Hachochim (Like a Lily among the Thorns) is comprised of her papercut with roses surrounding the border in watercolors. In the Twelve Tribes, Yael depicts each of the tribes through their symbols in the Bible. For example, Joseph is represented by wheat because of his dream of his brothers' sheaves of wheat bowing down to his sheaf. In Shivat Haminim, Yael depicts the seven species of Israel that were mentioned in Deuteronomy. Haadam Etz Hasedeh (A man is like the tree of the field) is a phrase which is also found in Deuteronomy and reflects the Biblical injuction that man not uproot the tree in the field because man is likened to the tree in the field.
Yael Seidemann's works are currently on display at Celebrations, The Jewish Museum Store in New York, NY; the Aesthetic Sense in Mt Kisco, NY; The Jewish Quarter, White Plains, NY; Lois Reiter Limited, Rye Ridge, NY; and Judaica Art Is in Jamaica, NY.
Her artwork has also been displayed at Celebrations: Rye Town Hilton – January 1999; Town and Village Judaica Crafts Festival, New York, NY– March 2001/2001; Israeli Folk Dance Festival and Festival of the Arts, New York, NY – April 2000; Celebration of Jewish Arts and Crafts, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY – October 2000; Westchester Jewish Center, Rabbi Irving & Marly Koslowe Judaica Gallery – December 2001 to March 2002.
Yael teaches Fourth Grade Hebrew at the Solomon Schechter School in White Plains, NY.
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