Archive for the ‘Featured Artists’ Category

Happy Passover!

22, Mar 2013

“Fractured Epics: History Painting and Imaginary Portraits” by Joel Silverstein filmed at The Columbia/ Barnard Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life. This exhibition is on display through January 27th. Special thanks to the Jewish Art Salon, especially Yona Verwer and Richard McBee for their vital roles in creating this exhibition and presentation.

Hanukkah Electronica

28, Nov 2012

Hanukkah Electronica is an elegant designer-made Menorah for the Festival of Lights. It’s miniaturized modern styling makes it looks like a pocket-sized work of art. It not only travels easily to dorms, offices, and around the house, but its LED candellight is designed to mesmerize. Pick the number of “candles” you want to burn each [...]

Jewish Art Now presents Jacqueline Nicholls Part One: Judaism & Art from Jewish Art Now on Vimeo.   Jewish Art Now presents Jacqueline Nicholls Part Two: The Kittel Collection from Saul Sudin on Vimeo.   Jewish Art Now presents Jacqueline Nicholls Part Three: The Mourning Kittel from Jewish Art Now on Vimeo. Find out more [...]

Temporary Shelter

19, Sep 2012

Temporary Shelter is a collection of narrative panels that tell the stories of homeless New Yorkers in an installation that mimics the shape of a sukkah. Artist Heather Stoltz relates the homelessness found in New York City to that of the Jews in their journey in the desert following the exodus from Egypt and concepts found [...]

With honey on the mind as Rosh Hashanah quickly approaches, check out this innovative Hive Honey Set from Biodidactic Designs. The jars from this New York based designer come in both clear and frosted glass, and are shaped like a single honeycomb resting at a diagonal. The hive honey set is “informed by the complexities [...]

By Rivka Nehorai Hamsa Dore, 2007. Printing on transparencies; metallic overprinting; handwritten text; gold, crystal, glass beading; moonofilament. 5 3/4″ x 4″ “Silence is not acoustic. It is a change of mind, a turning around… My responsibility (is) that of asking questions instead of making choices.” So were the words and approach of composer, artist, [...]

By Jessica White, Vienna Efraim Moskovics is a photographer who challenges form and structure in a peaceful and non-threatening way. He takes familiar rituals and traditions in Judaism, to look at them in abstraction, from a different viewpoint, one that is contemporary and full of rich influences from literature, film and contemporary art. In doing so, he reveals what is within a community, [...]

Open Up (‘Patoach Tiftach’) 194 glass boxes, 10x10x10cm each, 7147 marbles “כי יהיה בך אביון… פתוח תפתח את ידך לו והעבט תעביטנו די מחסורו אשר יחסר לו” “When any of your brothers is poor… open up your hand generously, and extend to him any credit he needs to take care of his wants.”  (Deuteronomy 15:7-8) “Open Up (‘Patoach [...]

Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik is one of the most innovative Jewish artists working in traditionally papercut technique today. Through his Paper Tefillah series Bialik explores how we engage in prayer, how we connect to G-d, and to each other. “What I am doing with this series is trying to explore how we engage in prayer, how we [...]


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