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EXHIBIT
Printing the Talmud: From
Bomberg to Schottenstein at the Yeshiva University Museum
Through August 28
This exhibit features a sixth century mosaic floor, originally
from the Rehov synagogue in the Beth Shean valley in Israel. Weighing 3 tons,
this mosaic has never before been seen outside of Israel . FREE ADMISSION. A
fascinating exploration into the world of Talmud study, illustrating how
technological advances -- the invention of the printing press over 500 years
ago and the impact of the computer in recent decades -- have transformed the
ancient discipline of Talmud study into an accessible pursuit available to
all.
Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History,15 West 16th Street
(between 5 & 6 Ave) 212.294.8330
www.yumuseum.org
New Museum hours: Sun, Tue.-Thur . 11:00-5:00 ,Mon. 11:00-7:00 Friday
11:00-3:00
EXHIBIT
“Illustrated History” - Ora Abrahami
June 2– 26
In this exhibit curated by
Ayelet Danielle Aldouby, colorful oil paintings depict the childhood of the
Israeli artist Ora Abrahami as intertwined in the history of Israel.
Reminiscent of the Egyptian’ hieroglyphs, the artist illustrates a linear
sequence of her life as told by a naïve little girl using the intoxicating
shades of the Mediterranean colors. The vast canvases take the viewer through
monuments and landmarks in Israeli culture and scenery: Carmel Mizrahi, Yad Le
Banim, the Hora dances, the camel convoys, the vineyards and the orchards.
Other paintings integrate themes such as Jerusalem, the Menorah and the Jewish
wedding.
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
7:30-9 pm. Gallery hours: Mon-Thur 10-10pm,Friday 10-3pm Sunday 10-5pm Bergen
County YJCC, 605Pascack Road, Washington Township, NJ.For more information JCC
Tel: 201.666.6610, Or visit
www.oraabrahami.com
EXHIBIT
Bed
Landscapes – Maya Barkai
June 2-26
Curated by Ayelet
Danielle Aldouby, Maya Barkai’s photographs, a hybrid of nature and art,
suggest vast landscapes with coastal hills and valleys. These topographic
allusions are nonetheless biomorphic and convey both a sense of the romantic
sublime and an aura of doubt and wonder.Barkai who began her career as a
military photographer for the IDF journal Bamachaneh, went on to work for
”Zoom 77” as a photojournalist and has graduated with honors from SVA. She
recently won a “Behind the Lense” award from” W” magazine and her shows
include exhibitions in both Israel and the US.
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
7:30-9 pm.
Gallery hours: Mon-Thur 10-10pm, Friday 10-3pm Sunday 10-5pm
Bergen County YJCC, 605 Pascack Road, Washington Township, NJ. For more
information JCC Tel: 201-666-6610, Or visit
www.adaartconsulting.com
EXHIBIT
She-Altar - Mixed media
installations by Anat Litwin
T
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June 18
Anat Litwin's graduate
exhibition from Hunter College MFA program in Combined Media includes colorful
installations made of different media. The Israeli Artist, graduate of the
Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design 2001, has exhibited her works in
Israel, Italy and in the U.S.A. and has received the 2001 Keren Sharet Award
as well as the Keren Mandel scholarship.
Hunter College Times Square Gallery. 450 West 41
Street (between 9th and 10th Aves. at Dyer St). For more information please
visit:
www.anatlitwin.net
EXHIBIT
May Peace
Prevail in the Land of Milk and Honey - Tamar Hirschl and Elena Keller
Through July 15
New York-based
Israeli artist Tamar Hirschl combines personal memories of conflict and strife
with more recent global confrontations. The formal result is a subtle balance
between explosive strokes and an acute attention to iconographic detail. She
juxtaposes objects, some rendered freely and others decisively, to develop a
body of work that reads as a monumental epic. Elena Keller's series on Israel
visualizes the currents of the most diverse energies that comprise the Holy
Land -- energies of geological formation, religious passion, historical drama,
myth-making and the quests for individual harmony.
The canvasses are
very specific, not in terms of "recognizability" to the viewer's impulses, but
namely on the level of capturing these energies.
Krasdale Gallery. 65 West Red Oak Lane, White
Plains NY 10604. For further information please call Sigmund Balka:
914.694.6400 ext. 2125 or visit: www.krasdalegalleries.com. Tamar Hirschl's
work may be viewed at
www.tamarhirschl.com
EXHIBIT
Contemporary Art-Israeli Artists
May 19– June 11, 2005
Contemporary Art-Israeli Artists is a group exhibition curated by
Ayelet Danielle Aldouby and Anat Klebanov to celebrate over 50 years of
Israeli art. The group show includes works by Mordechai Ardon, Moshe Kupferman,
Lea Nikel, Igal TUmarkin, Zvika Lachman, Ora Abrahami, Farideh and others.
Exhibition dates: Opening Reception: Thursday,
May 19th, 6PM
Gallery hours: Tuesday thru Saturday 10-5pm
Midday Gallery, 8 North Dean Street, Englewood, NJ 07631 Tel: 201.568.4454
EXHIBIT
Dialogues
& Anti-logues - Dov Lederberg
June 1-30 | Opening Reception: June 7, 6 pm- 8 pm
In his exhibit of
abstract illusionist paintings, Dov Lederberg attempts to render unique visual
models for an impressive range of human communication and interaction. Using a
basic form of two cartoon "faces" in confrontation, he has succeeded in
creating a rich and extensive series of over thirty paintings with unusual
combinations of colors and shades, permutations and transformations. Born in
Bronx NY, the American-Israeli artist and film maker had several exhibitions
in museums and galleries in California, Los Angeles, New Jersey and Jerusalem.
Ezair Gallery, 905 Madison Ave. (between
72nd-73rd Sts). For more information please call: 212.628.2224 or visit:
www.ezairgallery.com
EXHIBIT
Forevermore: The Hansen Project
- Yuval Yairi
May 12 – June 30
Reception for the Artist May 12, 5 pm–9 pm
Jerusalem based artist Yuval
Yairi's, first solo exhibition in North America includes 20 mosaic-like color
photographs of The Hospital for Hansen Disease in Jerusalem, an almost vacant
leprosy hospital and the remnants of the lives that once inhabited it. The
Israeli novelist and Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon used this leprosy hospital as
the backdrop for his novel “Shira” and in his short story “Forevermore” -
hence the title of this exhibition. Working on a tripod with a digital video
camera in still mode, from a single viewpoint, Yairi approximates the movement
of the viewer's gaze as he slowly observes the details before him.
Andrea Meislin Gallery. 526 W 26th Street, Suite
214. For further information please call: 212.627.2552 or visit:
www.andreameislin.com
ART BOOK SIGNING
"Works on Paper" - Book Signing Reception for Artist Benjamin Levy
May 27, 8-10 pm
The Israeli
artist Benjamin Levy' new book unites poems by Leo Vroman with Levy's
paintings. "Works on Paper" is published by Oksbooks with a foreward by Daniel
Piersol.
National Arts Club, 15 gramercy Park South
EXHIBIT
Zigi Ben-Haim: 90 Days of Berlin - Drawings, paintings and sculpture
Through May 28
The Israeli artist recently spent
three months in Berlin on a DAAD fellowship. During that period he completed
90 drawings in various mixed media, ultimately generating a new body of work
that addresses questions of proximity and distance, the constantly shifting
layers of culture and meaning that characterize contemporary life, the present
and the past, the German and the Jewish as well. Ben-Haim, an established
international artist for more than 30 years, has exhibited in major galleries
and museums and his works are in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the
Jewish Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Israel Museum, the Tel-Aviv Museum and
in numerous public and private collections around the world. His public
sculptures have been travelling for the last seven years throughout the U.S.
and Israel. Thirteen of them are currently on view at the German Embassy in
Washington, DC.
Stefan Stux Gallery , 530 West 25th Street.
Tuesday-Saturday, 10-6pm
EXHIBIT
MISS LIBERTY: FOUR STATIONS - David
Wakstein and The Painting Team
May 3-28
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 5, 6-8
pm
Benefit Event: Tuesday, May 10, 7-9 pm
Miss Liberty, a monumental mosaic
(approx.1600 ft) made of thousands of small hand-carved pieces of Jerusalem
stone, was created by 120 Israeli students of Jewish and Arab families from
the four Art Stations and studios operating in Ofakim, Ramle, Nazareth and
Rishon-leZion, Israel and led by Israeli artist David Wakstein. Wakstein’s
project moves away from despair and violence by
providing creative solutions
for Israel's youth that project a possible shared future. His strategy is to
use existing imagery, such as caricatures and illustrations, to transform
meaning and message, much like the media and publishing world have shaped or
manipulated our responses in subliminal and direct ways. Miss Liberty has
here, in its New York visit, come to address the worldwide paradoxes of
liberty today. It was recently exhibited at Kibutz Beeri Gallery, Israel.
White Box Gallery, 525 West 26th Street (between
10th and 11th Avenues), NYC. For more information please call: 212-714-2347 or
visit:
www.whiteboxny.org
EXHIBIT
Insatiable - Photographs and video by Orit Raff
April 28 - Jun. 4
Book signing and reading for the new Orit Raff monograph Insatiable -
May 26, 6:30 PM
Raff’s third solo exhibition is ostensibly on the theme of bakeries
and bread making. It combines color photographs and video created in New York
and Israel - the two homes between which she splits her time - and is
conceived as a metaphor for creation and destruction. The monochromatic
coloration of the photographs magnifies the enigma that is stored in the
traces presented to the viewer – incisions and signs asking to be deciphered.
JULIE SAUL GALLERY, 535 West 22 Street. For more
info please call: 212.627.2410 or visit:
www.saulgallery.com
EXHIBIT
Itzik Benshalom: 25 years - Sculptures
May 14 - Sep. 25
The sculptures in
this solo exhibition, by Israeli artist Itzik Benshalom, range from large to
small scale and are primarily cast in bronze with a few fiberglass works.
Through his works Benshalom seeks to define human interaction - focusing on
basic human emotions such as love, anger, and understanding. Benshalom was
born in Hadera, Israel where he still works and resides. His work is
internationally recognized and can be viewed in museums and galleries, as well
as corporate and private collections. Grounds For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds
Rd, Hamilton, NJ.
For more info please call: 609.586.0616 or
visit:
www.groundsforsculpture.org
EXHIBIT
Aliza Olmert: "Tikkun"
Through June 30
Aliza Olmert chose the egg as the
central object in her one woman show. Through this powerful symbol of
creation, revival and rebirth she explores the balance between the whole and
the broken. Her conceptual art offers impossible constructions that express
the fragility of existence, the obstacles to survival, and the imperative to
sustain life. Tikkun, the Jewish charge to heal and restore balance in the
world, is expressed through the mending of the shattered fragments in these
haunting works.
Alisa Olmert was born in the displaced persons camp of Eschwege, Germany in
1946 and immigrated to Israel in 1949. She served in the Israeli Defense
Forces a topography instructor, received Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1970), and studied Landscape Architecture
at the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem (1985-1988).
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion Museum
One West 4th Street (between Broadway and Mercer Street).