Gloria Abella Ballen
Artist/Author
Gloria Abella Ballen is an international award winning artist/author of the acclaimed book,
The Power of the Hebrew Alphabet.
Her preparation for writing about the Hebrew alphabet took her to libraries and archives from the United States to Israel, Spain and theU.K. (British Museum and Oxford's Bodleian Library), as well as studying the Zohar and contemporary works such as The Alphabet of Creation by Ben Shahn and The Book of Letters by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner.
Abella Ballen has taught classes on creativity and expression at Georgia State University and the University of the Andes in Bogota. In addition to her graduate degree in art from SUNY-Buffalo, she did specialized work on creativity and expression with Larry Rivers and John Cage.
Abella Ballen has been visiting lecturer on Jewish art, Jewish illuminated manuscripts, and her own work from the Mishkan Omanim, Herzliya, Israel to the University of Essex and the Camberwell School of Art in the U.K. and University of Xinjiang in China among others.
In addition to her writing, she has exhibited at Christie’s in London and Louis Stern in Los Angeles, from the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City to the Bellevue Art Museum in Seattle. She has exhibited in the United States, Israel, Japan, Colombia, Mexico and England. Her art is in museum, corporate and private collections, from Colombia (National Museum) to the United States (Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Occidental Petroleum, Mayo Clinic, et.al.) and Canada (Royal Bank of Canada). She is of a Sephardic family, born in South America.
Click to Hear Interview with Gloria Abella Ballen
Click Here for Exhibition of Art Work
on the Hebrew Alphabet
at Waxlander Gallery
Click Here to Read about Gloria Abella Ballen
in the New Mexico Jewish Link newspaper
Awards and Recognitions
Best Religious Book Award of 2014, New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards
National Jewish Best Book Award Nominee 2014
Benjamin Franklin Best Book Award Nominee 2015
Best Book, Design and Production -
Southwest Book Design Awards
Latin American Graphics Biennial
Pan American Graphic Arts
UNESCO
National Endowment for the Arts
and others.
She can be contacted at
Gloria Abella Ballen
For more information about her work
Go to
www.gaonbooks.com/HebrewAlphabet.html
and
ThePoweroftheHebrewAlphabet
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