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Miriam Stern, Mass Moca, 2011. Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in.
Explosive and multi-dimensional, Reflections, a new series by Miriam Stern, brings attention to internal and external forms that shine.
Now exhibiting at the Johnsons & Johnsons headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in a building designed by I.M.Pei (the architect of the pyramid in the Louvre), Reflections is a series of paintings, prints, and collages that deal with literal reflective surfaces, and the process of internal introspection.
Beginning with photographs, Stern captures images of contemporary metal sculpture shining in the sunlight. She prints the images and reconstructs them to create new reflective forms of her own on a two-dimensional surface.
Through the artwork that influences Stern’s pieces, an artistic heritage is created. Some of her paintings and collages are influenced from architecture, such as the new building at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in California, designed by Daniel Lebiskind. Read the rest of this entry »
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SEDER Art Night is Back!
1 Dec2011
SEDER*
A meal-based initiative committed to creating a path for rethinking
how contemporary Jewish art and culture is financed and experienced communally.
Please join Anne Hromadka, Daniella Gold, Kim Newstadt, Will Deutsch and Jessica Shokiran, Director of A Space Gallery, for SEDER…
Monday December 12, 2011
7-9pm
@ A SPACE GALLERY
3215 Beverly Blvd | LA, CA | 90057
There is plenty of street parking on Beverly after 6pm. Please read all street signs.
RSVP TO: SEDERLOSANGELES@GMAIL.COM
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*This meal-based initiative allows individuals from the community
to become patrons of local Jewish artists. In exchange for a modest
cash donation ($18) guests enjoy a vegetarian locally sourced
dinner and they get a ballot. During the dinner, artists who’ve
submitted project proposals will make brief presentations. At the
end of the dinner, all guests vote on the project they like the best.
The artist whose proposal receives the most votes gets the donation money collected at the door.
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VaYetze—Artist D’var Torah
29 Nov2011
A young man meets a beautiful young girl at a well and she gives water to his camels. This is a familiar motif in B’reshit.
Eliezer, Avraham’s servant, is charged with the mission of finding a match for his son, Yitchak. When Eliezer sees Rivka at a well and she waters his camels, he immediately knows that she was sent to him by G-d as the perfect match for Yitchak.
The act of watering the camels is symbolic; it tells us that Rivka is nuturing, kind, and compassionate. She will be a good Jewish mother to her children and to Am Yisrael.
‘Rebekka und Eliezar’ Painter: Meister der Wiener
The well motif in this week’s parsha story differs from that first scene because Yaakov and Rachel—who will go on to create the Jewish people—actually meet. And unlike the story of Yitchak and Rivka, where Rivka is chosen by Eliezer, Yaakov and Rachel uncover the potential of their relationship at the well together. Their story is unique because Yaakov actively uncovers the rock that was covering the well in Rachel’s presence.
“VaYetze” by Anna Fine Foer
“There before his eyes was a well in the open. Three flocks of sheep were lying beside it, for the flocks were watered from that well. The stone on the mouth of the well was large. When all the flocks were gathered there, the stone would be rolled from the mouth of the well and the sheep watered; then the stone would be put back in its place on the mouth of the well.“                           B’reshit 29:2-3
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Yaakov’s act of uncovering the stone from the well symbolizes his desire for Rachel, allowing his love for his beloved to flow just as water is drawn from the well. Covering the well with a heavy stone signifies Yaakov’s despair when Laban, Rachel’s father, tricks Yaakov into marrying Leah, Rachel’s elder sister. Yaakov must work seven years as an indentured servant and wait to marry his beloved Rachel. In effect the well is covered, no water is drawn, and love does not flow forth from Yaakov and Leah’s union.
When Yaakov marries Rachel the heavy stone is removed, water can be drawn, and their love flourishes.
For more work by Anna visit http://www.annafineart.com.
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Call for Entries: Cover Thy Head Exhibition
28 Nov2011
The Morris & Sally Justein Heritage Museum
Cover Thy Head Exhibition
Juried Exhibition of Artist Crafted Kippot – Open Call for Entries Guidelines
The Morris and Sally Justein Heritage Museum at Baycrest invites eligible artists to submit applications of an original kippah (yarmulke) to Cover Thy Head a juried exhibition. By completing an application, your entry will represent you to the jury, who will review it for possible inclusion in Cover Thy Head. Exhibiting artists will be eligible for prizes. The exhibition will open October 2012 in Toronto, Canada. Read the rest of this entry »
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‘ON THE EDGE OF LIGHT’ opens in Miami
24 Nov2011
A group exhibition of Tina Spiro, Janet Slom, Paul Stoppi, Fernando Calzadilla, Yasmin Spiro, Prof. Hans Evers and selected sculpture students of DASH. Curated by Arthur Dunkelman and Tina Spiro.
Opening Reception: Tuesday November 29
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Maor Gallery
3030 NE 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida
(adjacent to Midtown Miami, venue for Art Miami, Scope, and other major art fairs)
On view November 29 – January 31Â
With special programming during Art Basel and Miami Art Week 2012
Tina Spiro, Aurora Armada, 2009. Oil, enamel, casein, on canvas, 69 x 48in.
“Darkness, no matter how ominous and intimidating, is not a thing or force: it is merely the absence of light. So light need not combat and overpower darkness in order to displace it — where light is, darkness is not. A thimbleful of light will therefore banish a roomful of darkness.â€
– Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, inspired by teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Maor presents ON THE EDGE OF LIGHT, a multi-media exhibition exploring five artists’ interpretation of different qualities of light through site-specific installations and paintings both inside and outside Maor Gallery. Read the rest of this entry »
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Until These Memories Ring True
21 Nov2011
SoRo Art Center
2701 S. Robertson Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Sunday – Thursday | 10 – 7; Friday | 10 – 2
Ashira and Rivka Siegel are sisters, native Angelenos, and occasional collaborators. Raised in a Chabad Hassidic household, the Siegel sisters use divergent lenses, merging myriad contemporary subculture influences to map their similar, yet distinct responses to the continuity of memory as it is confronted and challenged by the individual experience. Read the rest of this entry »
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(Re)inventing Ritual: Hands on Art Workshop
18 Nov2011
Jewish Ritual: Rethinking, Renewed
September 14 – December 31, 2011
Jewish Ritual: Rethinking, Renewed curated by Georgia Freedman-Harvey, features the work of 16 Jewish artists including: Bill Aron, Elizabeth Bloom, Carol Es, Benny Ferdman, Carol Goldmark, Laurie Gross, Marcie Kaufman, Eileen Levinson, Peachy Levy, Laurel Paley, Victor Raphael, Ilana Schachter, Doni Silver Simons, Ruth Snyder, Erella Teitler and Ruth Weisberg.
At the heart of the exhibit is this question: How can art add more relevance to rituals that play an important role in the personal lives of artists and their communities? It is based on the idea that rethinking and/or renewing how one engages in rituals allows one to reconnect with Judaism.
(Re)inventing Ritual Hands on Art Workshop:
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 from 12-1:15 pm at Hebrew Union College (FREE LUNCH)
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Marlene Burns, abstract expressionist artist, has just published her first book, called Sacred Intention.
This art book is a compilation of nearly two years of painting expressions of Hebrew prayers, psalms, proverbs and holidays. Because Marlene is also a Hebrew educator, her preparation for each painting included chanting or singing specific words and studying commentary and midrashim relating to the piece chosen. She has named this series sacred intention, because she paints these expressions with the same kavanah with which she prays. Each painting is accompanied by a text which includes the translation and the artist’s interpretation The combination of image and text becomes a teaching at many levels.
Publishing a book was a natural outgrowth of her two passions for Judaism and for painting.
In her own words,†Merging my two passions, was the perfect blend!â€
The coffee table sized art book is 12â€x12â€, offering 18 full paged images and accompanying teachings.
Sacred Intention is available to preview and order at www.KavanahPress.com
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Free the Jewish Artist!
14 Nov2011
By Pop-Chassid
The question comes up all the time.
Is it possible to be creative and still be a Jew? Can I, a person filled with this passion in my heart – a passion that is alive, breathing, on fire – translate that passion into a piece of art without compromising my principles?
Oh, please.
How can people ask such questions? Don’t you know that G-d created you? You are living in his mind right now, and his lips are constantly uttering you into existence. That emotion in your heart, that one that wants to come out as some sort of rap, or drawing, or whatever, that’s being whispered right now, right out of G-d Almighty’s mouth.
And you know it. So why all the ho-humming, and why all the back and forth, and why all the shuckling?
Because we are afraid. And with good reason. We’ve seen only one or two true and truly successful Jewish artists in the world. Artists who have truly held onto their principles in the face of fame, an upside-down creative world and their own desire to be personally fulfilled.
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Virtual Exhibitions: Shema! and Global/Local
13 Nov2011
Jewish Art Now partnered up with the Jewish Art Salon to put together two exhibitions for the Global Day of Jewish Learning, Shema! and Global/Local.
These virtual exhibitions are being projected at over 200 locations in 40 countries for the special event being held today.
The Global Day of Jewish Learning was starting in honor of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s monumental translation on the Talmud and has continued as an annual event to bring Jews of all backgrounds together in a day of study and unity.
View the exhibitions below and congratulations to the winning artists!
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