Jewish Art Salon at Current Arts Gallery

Translations:
The 613

at Current Arts Gallery

Ancient rules, contemporary visions

Opening

Thursday, November 5, 20266:00-9:00 PM

Bagel brunch
with live music

Sunday, November 8, 20261:00-4:00 PM

Current Arts Gallery
17 Essex Street
New York, NY 10002

All times are New York local time.

Translations: The 613 exhibition invitation, Jewish Art Salon at Current Arts Gallery

Exhibition invitation from Jewish Art Salon.

About the exhibition

The Jewish Art Salon and Current Arts Gallery present Translations: The 613 - Ancient rules, contemporary visions.

Contemporary American and Israeli artists offer personal responses to the 613 mitzvot (commandments) found in the Five Books of Moses.

Each artist took one mitzvah as a point of departure and turned it into a visual response to the present. Identity, gender, migration, ecology, technology, power, and justice collide with contemporary experience. The result is a conversation across time.

Curated by Richard McBee, Joel Silverstein and Yona Verwer.

With thanks to the Israeli Ambassador to the UN

Hosted by: Ashley Frey, Founder of Current Arts
Samuel Abelow, Director at Current Arts

Artwork & ideas

Artists translate the 613 mitzvot into visual responses to contemporary life.

Maz Tzinman: Do not bow down to idolatry (#28)

Paul Margolis: Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor (#237)

Joel Silverstein: Do not raise the dead or consult them (#38)

Nancy Schwartz Katz: Love the Stranger (#431)

Harriet Fink: Do not oppress the stranger with words (#431)

Archie Rand:

Personal responses to ancient rules, through contemporary visual creativity.

Susan Rosenberg Jones: Make fringes for yourself — Susan Rosenberg Jones: Make fringes for yourself on the four corners of your garment (#386)

Ellen Holtzblatt: Immersion of the impure (#174)

Shoshana Guggenheim Kedem: Be fruitful and multiply (#1)

David Wander: Do not covet (#266)

Carmi Y. Plaut: Do not bow down to idolatry (#28)

Dan Harris: Do not be terrified in war (#525)

Personal responses to ancient rules, through contemporary visual creativity.

Leah Caroline: Dwell in a Sukkah (#325)

Billha Zussman: Honor your Father and Mother (#212)

Cynthia Beth Rubin: Sanctify the new month (#4)

Lenore Mizrachi Cohen: Study Torah (#419)

Efrat Baler-Moses: Do not be terrified in war (#525)

Richard McBee: Do not covet your neighbor’s wife (#10)

The result is a conversation across time.

Deborah Ugoretz: Judge with righteousness (#235)

Gabrielle Boros: The impurity of a menstruant (#181)

Yona Verwer: Immerse the Impure (#175)

Tobi Kahn: Sanctify the New Month (#4)

Samuel Abelow: Observe the Sabbath (# 31)

Omer Kaplan: Honor the Old (# 257)

Personal responses to ancient rules, through contemporary visual creativity.

Shani Nitzan: Do not offer the price of a dog (in the temple) (#571)

Carol Man: Do not eat torn meat (#73)

Goldie Gross: Affix a mezuzah on your doorpost (#423)

Participating artists

Samuel Abelow
Efrat Baler-Moses
Gabrielle Boros
Mel Brown
Leah Caroline
Harriet Fink
Goldie Gross
Debbie Guedalia
Dan Harris
Ellen Holtzblatt
Susan Rosenberg Jones
Tobi Kahn
Omer Kaplan
Nancy Schwartz Katz
Shoshana Guggenheim Kedem
Carol Man
Paul Margolis
Richard McBee
Lenore Mizrachi Cohen
Shani Nitzan
Carmi Y. Plaut
Archie Rand
Cynthia Beth Rubin
Joel Silverstein
Maz Tzinman
Deborah Ugoretz
Yona Verwer
David Wander
Billha Zussman

Supported by UJA-NY and the Natan Fund.
Jewish Art Salon is supported by CANVAS.

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Current Arts Gallery
17 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002