Jewish Exponent March 19: Holocaust / Slavery Exhibit

Hillel to Display Slavery-Holocaust Art

March 19, 2012 - Deborah Hirsch, Jewish Exponent Staff

A traveling art exhibit that examines slavery and the Holocaust opens this week at Temple University's Rosen Hillel. The project, "Transcending History: Moving Beyond the Legacy of Slavery and the Holocaust," was organized by the Idea Coalition, a group founded in 2009 to unite the black and Jewish communities through dialogues, social networking and other events.

Broadway -- The Divide by Elke Reva Sudin

 

 

 

 

After a broad-based art call late that year that drew 150 submissions from as far as Argentina and Montreal, a jury selected 40 paintings, watercolors, prints, sculptures and other mixed media for the exhibit. Since opening February 2010 at Vivant Art Collection in Old City, it has appeared at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture in Baltimore, the I.P. Stanback Museum at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg and, most recently, at the Center City law offices of Blank Rome LLP.

About 25 of the pieces will be on display at Temple, including works by nationally-acclaimed artists David Wander, Susan Shulman, Ahron Weiner and Yona Verwer, as well as by local University of the Arts sophomore Kate O'Hara.

A public opening will be held on Wednesday, March 21 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Hillel building, 1441 Norris St. 

Hillel staff are also planning additional events and guest lectures in conjunction with the exhibit, which will remain on display through the end of April. So far, those include a March 29 talk on "God and the Problem of Evil: Black and Jewish Answers" by professor Elliot Ratzman, and an April 19 Holocaust remembrance event organized by the AEPi Jewish fraternity. 

Viewers can stop by to see the art  from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the week. For additional hours, call 215-777-9797.

Brooklyn's Sephardic Community Center's new Artist Showcase program.

The  Sephardic Community Center will be hosting group and solo shows featuring the talented painters, photographers and designers of its community throughout the year.
The first group show and opening reception:  Wednesday February 29th, 7:30 PM.

1901 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11223

Work by Sarah Ashkenazi, Lenore Cohen, Jocelynn Escava, Suzy Fallas, Victor Gindi, Joseph Hedaya, Grace Mizrachi, Margalit Romano, Shirley Serure and Elke Reva Sudin.

Full catalog of artists' bios and prices will be available. February 29 - March 15, 2012

Urban Bubble by Elke Reva Sudin

'Hipsters And Hassids' At Mandell JCC

Works By Elke Reva Sudin Show Comparisons Between Those Two Groups

By SUSAN DUNNE, The Hartford Courant | January 11, 2012
The artist's critically acclaimed one-woman show stops for a month starting this week at the Mandell Jewish Community Center in West Hartford. It will be on display there until Feb. 25, alongside works from her "Urban Bubble" series of landscapes of New York City and Israel. Read more...

Urban Bubble January 15 - February 25, 2012

Chase Family Gallery at the JCC of Greater Hartford
335 Bloomfield Avenue West Hartford, CT
Opening Reception with the Artist: Sunday, January 15, 2-4 pm


THe Highline, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 48 in.

Urban Bubble is a collection of architectural landscapes and figurative narratives that discuss ideas of cultural identity, spiritual awareness, and attaining perspective in the diversity of urban environments. Select paintings included from the series Hipsters and Hassids juxtapose the similarities between these two dominant cultures sharing the neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York. The dichotomy of the hipster and Hassidic Jewish ways of life plays on the Brooklyn resident Elke Reva Sudin’s own understanding of both worlds as a young artist and observant Jew.

Chanukah art sale supporting Art Kibbutz

Verwer - Stanton Shul Amulet

Art Kibbutz, the International Jewish Artists Colony 

presents the art work of Andras Borocz, Siona Benjamin, Elke Reva Sudin, Yona Verwer, David Wander and Helene Aylon online until Dec. 27th. 

Buy a great piece of art - it’s a fabulous way to get your gifts for Chanukah... and your donation will support Art Kibbutz's seed funding, first residency programs in 2012 and its participation at Limmud NY where they'll offer several innovative programs. The Jewish Art Salon is participating in these Limmud sessions. More info here.

Global Day Online Art Exhibit by Jewish Art Salon

Jewish Art Salon members Chava Evans, Elke Reva Sudin and Yona Verwer created and juried two online exhibits which will be projected at 200 locations in 40 countries November 13th, 2011.


The Global Day of Jewish Learning was conceived to mark the completion of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s monumental translation on the Talmud. The inaugural 2010 Global Day reached every corner of the Jewish world and brought Jews across the spectrum of beliefs and backgrounds together in a day of study and unity.

Shema! features the winning artwork of high school students in the US and Israel.  The art includes a broad range of approaches, from quietly contemplative photography to exuberant paintings. Media includes photography, digital media, painting and drawing.  The gallery was created in partnership between RAVSAK, Jewish Art Salon, Jewish Art Now, and the Global Day of Jewish Learning. View Shema! on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/31790497

Global/Local, open to all Jewish artists, invited submissions that explored the visual texture and vocabulary of the artists’ particular Jewish communities. The work deals with themes of isolation, integration, social and ethnic exchange and modification within communities. The gallery was created in partnership between the Jewish Art Salon and Jewish Art Now, in honor of the Global Day of Jewish Learning. View Global/Local on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/31788989