Jean Edelstein

Jean Edelstein was born in Brooklyn, New York to Polish/Romanian immigrant parents. She moved to Southern California to pursue a career in fashion illustration in 1940, but quickly turned her interests to the fine arts.

Her first series to receive critical acclaim, the "Temple Series," involve large abstract paintings on canvases and scrolls. Her involvement in various world religions during her "Temple Series" introduced her to a lifelong exploration of the female presence in religion and spirituality, and she soon turned her artistic work to figurative model-rendering drawings and paintings. Brown, Dr. Betty Ann. "To Recover the Spiritual: The Art of Jean Edelstein" from Jean Edelstein: A Retrospective 1980-2000, LA ArtCore Center Publishers, 2002.]

She became involved in painting from real-time dance performances and was eventually asked to partake in the dance performances, painting large scale wall murals, the "Let's Dance" series, of the dancers while the audience looked on. These performances have been staged throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, and consistently employed avant garde performers in Los Angeles and Balinese dancers in Indonesia where she merges music, dance and art.

Edelstein's Chinese accordion book art is the artist's latest body of artwork. Using the pleated scrolls, she chronicles dance performances and landscape, particularly China's Guilin and Stone Mountain landscapes and Southern California Japanese zen gardens.

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* [http://www.jeanedelstein.com Official web site]