Jewish Museum Blanketed With Sacred Dreams
The large-scale installation by artist Mira Lehr is a sight to be seen
Be sure to look up next time you visit the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU!
That way you won’t miss the new large-scale installation by Mira Lehr called “Sacred Dreams.” The artwork is comprised of 183 aerial sculptures — made of burned and dyed Japanese paper, acrylic, ink and resin — that descend from the ceiling.
Valued at $300,000, the colorful masterpiece was a gift to the museum from New York-based art collector Dr. Robert B. Feldman.
“I want viewers to feel like they are walking beneath an aerial garden of luminous, reflecting sculptures,” Lehr said in a press release. “A holy garden of light, that takes people out of the actual world and transports them onto a spiritual plane.”
Feldman, who previously lived in Florida, said he was honored to donate the sculpture.
“This large-scale work now has a permanent home in the community for all to enjoy, including the millions of tourists that visit Miami Beach at this beloved gem of a museum that is of historic importance in the Southeast,” Feldman said in a press release. The installation is on view at the museum as a loan from Feldman and will become part of the museum’s permanent collection in September. The museum is open by appointment only.
On the National Register of Historic Places, the Miami Beach museum tells the story of more than 250 years of Florida Jewish history, art and culture with a growing collection of more than 100,000 items.
Nationally renowned as an eco-feminist artist, Lehr is known for working with imagery from the natural world, creating layered abstract compositions with unconventional materials. “60 Minutes” correspondent Morley Safer dubbed Lehr “the mistress of light.”
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