Creator Bio
Georgette Batlle
1940–2009
Georgette Batlle was known as a printmaker, painter, and conceptual artist. Her prints were exhibited at galleries and museums in New York, Boston, Tel Aviv, Paris, and Oxford, England. Born in New York, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute of Art, she moved to Israel, where she collaborated with Joshua Neustein on several artworks, playing a prominent role in the development of Environmental and Conceptual Art there.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Boots, Gallery House, Jerusalem
Boots was composed of 17,000 pairs of army boots piled up in the gallery. The boots are an obvious reference to soldiers in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), but also evoke the piles of shoes of…