Meet the Artists this Shabbat

This Shabbat, December 5 at 1:15PM, join us for a panel discussion of the artists from the REBOUND: Three Artists Claim the Jewish Body exhibit, on display in the SAJ Social Hall through January 8, 2010. The exhibit, curated by Tobi Kahn features David Friedman, Rachel Kanter and Susan Kaplow. They will talk about their provoctive work and reveal how and why they created the pieces they did.

Artists' Statement
Our intellectual, spiritual and physical practices are inextricably linked. We are bound to the various parts of our selves, our personal histories, our own stories, yet we are not constricted by them, as we constantly rebind, redefine, reexamine and refine our understanding of the ever-changing lives we lead.

Re-Bound is the making physical of that journey. It is the recognition that our relationship to tradition is far from static. These works are the visceral response to the way we three individuals commit to our daily artistic and spiritual practice of shaping, and being shaped by, the world around us.

David Friedman’s art is about inherited and invented mythology. He explores time/scale and physicality through the surface of skins, veins, transparent and light by staining, shaving, burning, painting, automatic drawing and personal calligraphy. Rachel Kanter works with textiles and sewing as the medium for her exploration of Jewish Ritual objects. Susan Kaplow takes her Jewish text study personally and hopes to inspire others to do the same. Her art is created with fabric, paper and other media.

This exhibit is not to be missed.