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Melissa Gould
Neu-York,
2000.
Lithograph; 44" x 28 1/2"; The Sigmund R. Balka Collection at
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum
Education:
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
Selected Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, NY; Auschwitz-Birkenau
State Museum, Poland; RISD Design Museum, Providence, RI
Neu-York
is a cautionary meditation suggesting what the local geographical
reality might have been like had victorious Nazis succeeded in bringing the
Third Reich across the Atlantic Ocean in 1945. At the same time it is an
exploration of psychological displacement and memory. This re-imagining
of the city plays with comparison and misrecognition and explores the
coexistence of past and present, fiction and reality.
Archie Granot
Ketubah of Rebecca Schaeffer and Michael Moldovan,
1999.
24
layers of paper, inlayed 23.5k gold leaf; 28 1/2" x 24 1/2"
Moldovan-Schaeffer Collection
Education:
M. Phil., University of Glasgow, Scotland; B.A.,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Selected Collections:
Jewish
Museum, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Judaica, PA; Israel
Museum, Jerusalem
“
This
ketubah
was inspired by the famous H. Bunting clover-
leaf-shaped woodcut map dating back to 1581 in which
Jerusalem is placed at the center of the world. My works usually
contain Hebrew texts – biblical, rabbinic, or Talmudic. I start
with a sketch and cut each layer individually using a scalpel.”
Barbara Green
My Father’s Odyssey,
2008.
Oil painting and collage of family photos and maps;
Triptych, each is 35" x 26 1/2"
Education:
B.S., New York University, New York; M.F.A., Institute
Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Selected Exhibitions:
Monarch
Gallery, NY; Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Mu-
seum, NY; Pergola Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Kaaterskill
Gallery, NY
“
Basically, I do ‘the figure.’ In this instance, the figure is an environment
that is equally as critical to the composition as a whole. I chose to depict
a man on route to the synagogue, as a statement of normalcy and every-
day life. This man is looking at you and saying: ‘I’m practicing my religion;
you can do the same.’ To me, the figure always speaks to the heart.”