Lydia Kern Receives Fourth Annual Diane Gabriel Visual Artist Award sevendaysvt.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sevendaysvt.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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 relationship with her faith and cultural identity.