DISLOYAL

I had the best time chatting with the brilliant artists Hannah Aliza Goldman and Leora Ostroff on the Disloyal podcast! This is a show hosted by Mark Gunnery that comes from the Jewish Museum of Maryland.

We talked about the JMM exhibition A Fence Around the Torah, curated by Liora and including work by both me and Hannah. We also got into the erasure of Arabic/Arab identity amongst Mizrahi Jews in Israel, Jewish American wealth, and making passionately progressive, passionately Jewish art that a lot of Jews don’t like.

Click Here to listen to the full episode.

Fake The Nation

I had a total blast being a guest again on the Fake The Nation podcast, hosted by the glorious Negin Farsad! Negin, the wonderful comic Katie Compa, and I talked about the Nov midterms, America’s dangerous rags to riches narrative, and male infidelity on Facebook. We also laughed a lot!

Please click here to listen to the episode.

Seder Bonnet

Happy Passover! Happy Easter! Happy Spring!

This last Saturday night millions of Jews celebrated Passover (or Pesach), and on Sunday morning millions of Christians celebrated Easter. To honor both, I created and wore a Seder bonnet for this year’s Easter Parade! It was the only Jewish themed hat seen promenading, and got a really warm, lovely response. Even from the New York post!

The NYC parade is one of the most joyful, creative, passionate, playful events around. If you haven’t been, put it on your calendar for next year! It’s seriously one of my favorite days in this great city.

Please click here to learn more about the Seder Bonnet.

Reserve / Release

This Wednesday evening! The incredible Lila Corwin Berman and I will be presenting our work and talking all things Jewish wealth/philanthropy/shmita!

I hope you’ll click here to register to join us for this public zoom talk co-hosted by Congregation B’nai Jeshurun and Harvard Hillel.

My Work in the Forward

Thanks to the Forward for covering A Fence Around The Torah at the Jewish Museum of Maryland and showcasing my work! Art about the Jewish relationship to safety and unsafety feels especially relevant right now.

Opening of A Fence Around The Torah at the Jewish Museum of Maryland

Openings are always a dynamic, fun experience. But this one, for an exhibition I believe in so much, that delves into themes of Jewish fear/safety/protection, proved particularly powerful. This show feels like a needed shift in how Jewish cultural institutions present contemporary art, and I’m thrilled to have my work included. It was such a great night!

My Work In The Wellesley College Collection!

BIG NEWS!!

Wellesley College, my alma mater, has purchased 5 of my Relative Unknowns collages for its art collection! These pieces will hang in the Jewish Studies department, which makes this news particularly meaningful for me. I am SO excited and honored.

The Relative Unknowns series consists of collage portraits of people I know I’m related to, but whose photographs have outlived my family’s memory of their names, identities, and stories. Knowing these anonymous photographs would inevitably get thrown out, I squirreled them away to my room as a kid, keeping them into adulthood. In 2010, I started crafting collages based on these photographs, to get these unknown ancestors back up on the wall. Though these works can look painterly, or even photographic, the only materials employed to create them are paper, tape, and glue.

You can view more of the Relative Unknowns pieces by clicking here.

A Fence Around The Torah

I’ve been waiting for an art exhibition about Jewish fear and safety for a VERY long time, and now that one is finally here I feel so lucky to have my work included!!

Many thanks to the Jewish Museum of Maryland and the show’s curator, Liora Ostroff, for including my BOUNTY video piece, Dangerous Opinions, in A Fence Around The Torah: Safety and Unsafety In Jewish Life.

December 5th through February 11th! If you’re in Baltimore in the coming months I hope you’ll check it out.

Big News Soon..

Preparing these pieces from my Relative Unknowns collage series for their new permanent home! Extremely excited for these works to live in the collection of an institution that has meant a ton to me, personally. I’ll be announcing where they’re off to soon!

New Laurels For Eleanor

New laurels have been added to the Eleanor of Illinois trailer! I’m so thankful to all the festivals that have supported this film. I never would have guessed my experimental video art short about American Jewish wealth would reach so many diverse audiences, and I’m grateful.

Hey Cannes!!

Thrilled to announce that my short film, Eleanor of Illinois, will be showing in the 2021 Cannes Short Film Festival!! Many thanks, as always, to the crazy talented team who brought this film to life.

Video Now

Excited to have the video documentation from A Wandering Sukkah, my mobile Sukkot art project with the artist Ryan Frank, included in this group exhibition at 375 Hudson! Many thanks to the curator, Jay Grimm. On now through December, 2021.

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New Jersey Stage

Thanks to New Jersey Stage for this interview! I still have 3 more films showing at the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival this month after last night’s showing of Eleanor Of Illinois.

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New Jersey Jewish Film Festival!

Thank you New Jersey! Very grateful to share that this year’s festival will include FOUR of my short films from my BOUNTY series - my live action piece, Eleanor of Illinois, and three of my video collages. I have never shown this much work in a single festival before! It’s really exciting.

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New Forgive Us Illustration

It’s pretty wild that I created Forgive Us, my sculpture portrait of Ivanka and Jared, BEFORE the events of Jan 6th. I think this piece has taken on a whole new meaning since that day, and I’m so thankful to Luis P. Melgar for creating this beautiful illustration highlighting all my interventions on the original antique platter!

This sculpture employs 18k gold and late grandma Buddy’s melted gold teeth to transform an antique platter portrait of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette into one of Jared and Ivanka. The platter has been in my family for generations - we used it to hold matzoh at Passover.

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Celebrating America on Fake The Nation

So many thanks to the fabulous Negin Farsad for having me as her guest today on a special addendum episode of her podcast, Fake The Nation! We chatted about last night’s Celebrate America Inaugural program and our many, many American tears.

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