Claire Jeanine Satin's Text Installation

Summer Reading

Text based installation - Suspended Pages; Handwritten script on powder-coated aluminum screening; 13 "pages"  45"H x 72"W

Black Square Gallery
Wynwood, Miami, Florida
From 7/14/2012 through 9/4/12. 11AM-6PM

Image courtesy of the Artist: PENTIMENTO: KABBALAH BOOK II    

Printing on transparencies; metallic overprinting; silver, crystal, glass beading; monofilament. 8 1/2"H x 6"W

From Birds' Heads to Hidden Women: Marc Michael Epstein and the Medieval Haggadah

Marc Michael Epstein. The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. xi + 324 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-15666-9.

Reviewed by Julie Harris (Spertus College)
Published on H-Judaic (July, 2012)
Commissioned by Jason Kalman

"Those familiar with Marc Michael Epstein from the lecture circuit--both scholarly and popular--know him as an entertaining and facile speaker. These qualities are on display in Epstein’s recent book--The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative and Religious Imagination---even his art-historically gifted children appear here as they do in his lectures--but readers expecting a “synagogue circuit” text will be sorely disappointed. This is a serious book, with careful observations, robust opinions, and footnotes forged by years of reading and thinking about Jewish medieval imagery, manuscript illumination, and its historiography. Indeed, publication of Epstein’s book offers more proof that Jewish art history, so long in its infancy, has finally come of age.

Rina Dweck: Project Face

Ocean

Project Face

Pop Up Gallery
1200 Ocean Ave, Asbury Park Boardwalk, NJ 

Gallery Hours: Open 12 – 4 PM daily, (4 -7 Closed, 7-9 PM)

Opening Reception: July 12th, 6-10 PM

Rina Dweck is pleased to present “Project Face,” a yearlong exercise in which the Brooklyn-based artist diligently shot 365 self-portraits. Ranging from the eccentric to the testimonial her photographs reflect a narrative take on voyeurism, pop culture, media, Jewish culture, and classical portraiture.

Dweck delves into her background meditating on what the act of creating a disguise can counter-intuitively reveal to both the artist and the viewer. Through the application of make-up, outlandish fashion, and the usage of props, Dweck conjures up scenarios rife with allusions from history and pop culture. Recalled are details from the artist’s life and her cultural surroundings; music videos of the 1980’s, glossy magazine shoots, symbols of Jewish culture and patterns on fabric. 


Rina Dweck's website

Pop Artist & Chassid Yitzchok Moully

His pink Yarmulka and orange socks are one hint that Rabbi Yitzchok Moully isn't a typical Lubavitcher Shliach. 


He tells Mishpacha Magazine how his art work shows deep levels of joy that everyone can connect to. Read article here.

Trix Rosen's Photography Exhibit

 Hands of the Kohan

Treasured: Honoring Precious and Vanishing Worlds

June 15- August 26, 2012
Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, Maryland

Trix Rosen is exhibiting two photographs of centuries-old Jewish gravestones from cemeteries in the Ukraine, and one photograph of a vandalized historic register farmhouse from NJ in this group exhibition that explores the beauty and vulnerability of the endangered, and highlights the fragility of vanishing worlds.


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Ellen Alt's Group Exhibit: LINE, GRID, BLACK, WHITE

"LINE, GRID, BLACK, WHITE" 

Ellen Alt, Tirtzah Bassel, Deborah Putnoi 

Opening Reception: June 30, 7 - 9pm
Closing Reception: July 8, 3-5pm


Dreitzer Gallery
Brandeis University, Waltham MA
(Located in the Spingold Theatre Building)

As our lives become increasingly enmeshed in webs, grids and structures of the virtual and not-so-virtual varieties, three artists offer some thought-provoking images for contemplation. 

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Tammuz by Shoshannah Brombacher

Tammuz

Painting by Shoshannah Brombacher.

Tammuz (Hebrew: תמוז) is the tenth month of the civil year and the fourth month in the  the Hebrew calendar. 

The name was adopted from the Babylonian calendar, in which the month was named after one of the main Babylonian gods, Tammuz. 

17 Tammuz - Seventeenth of Tammuz – (Fast Day). 

17 Tammuz is a fast day in remembrance of Jerusalem's walls being breached. This year it fell on Shabbat, therefore we observe the fast the following day, Sunday July 8.