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Petlin was known for his narrative art and for depicting subjects drawn from his own personal history. Weisswald (White Forest) is a series of nine paintings almost all of which are set on what looks…
Segalove mines her own life for personal narratives as a source for her feminist, conceptual, video, and performance art. Jewish Boys, a photograph of text, tells an anecdote about her first day in a…
Bruskin explored the intersection of his Jewish and Soviet identities in art that took the Soviet Union’s obsession with iconography and slogans in a different and subversive direction. In a series of…
The brothers Mike and Doug Starn often include materials such as Plexiglas, wood, nails, transparency film, scotch tape, wax, and pushpins in their photo-based mixed media works. One of their goals…
Wexler is an artist and architect who also makes furniture. Over the years, he has often reinvented the sukkah, the booth in which Jews eat meals during Sukkot, an autumn holiday commemorating the…
Freed deliberately designed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to create a sense of disorientation and alienation, even terror, in keeping with the museum’s subject matter. Though it is not based on a…
For her book Florida Family Portrait, Gelles photographed her family in the same pose over twenty years during trips to visit her parents in Florida. A comment on family, growth, aging, death, and the…
The matzah used to make Goldberg’s reimagined seder plate was purchased from a Hasidic bakery in Brooklyn. Inspired by the prominent role played by the asking of questions in the Haggadah, he met with…
This day [December 29, 1778] the British troops, consisting of about 3,500 men, including two battalions of Hessians under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell of the Seventy-first…
7 September 1787SiresWith leave and submission I address myself to those in whom there is wisdom and understanding and knowledge, they are the honourable personages appointed and Made overseers of a…