Igal fedida biography sample
Igal was born and raised in Israel.!
Meet Igal Fedida: Orthodox Jew Featured At Art Basel
Miami-based artist Igal Fedida exhibited his transcendent collection, “The Art of Letters: Journey Into Being” during Miami’s Art Basel last week at the Bal Harbour Waterfront.
Fedida is a largely self-taught artist, a businessman who sold his shop and defected, as it were to art.
Fedida was born in Israel and moved to America 35 years ago. He spent 20 years in Los Angeles, where he had a successful construction business, before ultimately succeeding in becoming a full-time artist.
Fedida has made art since childhood.
When I asked him what constitutes the title “artist,” he answered, “It’s not just the fact that you dedicate the time only for the art…but more what you sacrifice,” which is what he did when he embarked on his full-time artistic journey.
Fedida says that keeping Shabbat is his “ID,” and that if we go the way of Rambam, observances don’t need to be questioned; they just need to be done.
He also offers the approach of the Ramban, who explains that once the mitzvot are followed, you become knowledgeable of what