Creator Bio
Archie Rand
b. 1949
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Archie Rand is a painter, muralist, graphic artist, and illustrator. He was chair of the visual arts department at Columbia University and is a professor of art at Brooklyn College. Among Rand’s honors is a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship. The Chapter Paintings series illustrates the fifty-four divisions of the Hebrew Bible. This photo is from an installation put on in 1996.
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The Chapter Paintings
Each of the fifty-four paintings in Archie Rand’s series, The Chapter Paintings, is based on a weekly Torah portion. In interviews, the artist has said that he is interested in creating a new…