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EXHIBIT: Asheville

Reflections

May 20—August 31, 2023
Citron Gallery

The fine folks at the Citron Gallery in Asheville are including a few of my paintings in this group show.

EXHIBIT

Eight Approaches at Boston’s Hebrew College

January – July 2023
Hebrew College
(New Campus)
1860 Washington Street Newton, MA 02466
Newton, Massachusetts

If you missed it at the Museum of Fine Arts, or if you want to revisit my 8-painting series “Eight Approaches,” it is now inaugurating the College’s new campus on Washington Street in Newton.

EXHIBIT: Provincetown

Summer Group Show

May—July 5, 2023
Rice Polak Gallery

Provincetown, Massachusetts

MUSEUM EXHIBIT:

Eight Approaches at MFA Boston

December 15, 2022
5-10 pm

My painting series “Eight Approaches” is debuting in full at the MFA Boston! The paintings will be featured on the 15th as part of the Museum’s Chanukah celebration with JArts and CJP. (the event is included with general admission, only $5, members are free). If you read my recent essay “My Guston” you probably already have a sense of what a powerful juxtaposition it will be for my work to be hanging in the same museum just after Guston’s exhibit. I am thrilled to put these paintings in dialogue with the community and with the artists of the MFA.

Feature: ‘Eight Approaches’ weaves light, time and Jewish identity, by Penny Schwartz, Jewish Journal, December 2022.

LIMITED-EDITION PRINTS

Disrupted Realism

Delighted to announce a very small edition of signed and numbered prints (only 25 available) in collaboration with Sebastian Foster and author John Seed. They teamed up to make a new set of selected artists from John’s book Disrupted Realism (if you don’t already have a copy, you should look for one of those as well!). The printing his beautiful and they are reasonably priced. “Ariel” is 11×14 inches, in a signed & numbered edition of 25.

BOOK:

For the philosophically inclined

My painting “Slower, Louder, Breathe” is featured on the cover of a brand-new book from Oxford Press. “Normativity and Agency” is edited and includes an essay by my friend, Philosopher Tamar Schapiro.

I just reread one of her essays from a few years ago. These lines will give you a sense of what I love about her writing, not to mention what I do every day in my studio: “We are in an internally unstable normative condition. Deliberation is our natural response to this instability…It is the activity, and the process, through which we humanize ourselves, over and over again.”

EXHIBIT: Provincetown

Passages

August 18 – 31, 2022
Rice Polak Gallery
430 Commercial Street, Provincetown MA

AWARD

2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Grant

I am grateful to the MCC for awarding me a 2022 painting grant!

ESSAY

My Guston

A personal essay I wrote about Philip Guston. Read more>

EXHIBIT: Brooklyn

The Figure

May 31, 2022-June 28, 2022
Site:Brooklyn Gallery
curated by Andi Campognone

EXHIBIT

Remember, Renew, Reimagine

Hebrew College Centennial Exhibition, curated by Deborah Feinstein

Sunday, April 3, 2022 | 5-7 p.m. (Exhibit runs April 3-June 14, 2022)

Opening reception featuring a live cantorial performance
Ted Cutler Atrium Hebrew College
160 Herrick Road Newton Center, MA 02459

Learn more and RSVP >

ARTICLE

AJS Perspectives: The Art Issue

“Artists on their art” feature. Read more > | PDF>

AWARD

CJP Arts and Culture Impact Grant

CJP awarded a round of grants to support Greater Boston creatives for projects that will include dance, documentary film, visual arts, and original music. The new round of grants, totaling $67,500 for nine artists and their teams, comes just six months after CJP invested $100,000 in 11 local artists. Read more >

EXHIBIT & BOOK: San Francisco

Stay Inspired

December 10, 2020 — January 30, 2021
Dolby Chadwick Gallery

The exhibition will feature work by each of the Dolby Chadwick Gallery artists who were paired as part of the Stay Inspired series. While the poetry pairings will not be integrated into the exhibition itself, they will appear in a gorgeous, fully illustrated hardcover coffee-table book titled Stay Inspired: Shelter in Place 2020, published on the occasion of the show. This volume presents an astounding selection of poetry. Voices included range from the thirteenth-century poet Rumi to former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins to recent Nobel Prize in Literature winner Louise Glück. For each book sold through January 30, 2021, 50% of the sales price will be donated to No Kid Hungry, which has been doing important work to feed families most in need during these trying times.

EXHIBIT: Provincetown

Making Waves

October 15 – November 3, 2020
Rice Polak Gallery

Over 40 artists will take you for a ride on the rapids of politics, social justice and
the effects of the pandemic on their work.

“The idea of the virtual show is to make people think, to stir things up and to peer into how the pandemic and the current political situation has affected the personal and creative lives of artists,” says director and curator, Marla Rice. With upheaval all around, how can we in the arts stay silent? A portion of the proceeds from sales will be donated to local non-profits including Lower Cape Outreach & Lower Cape
Food Pantry.

LIVE:

Studio Visit with Jarts Live

A 2020 virtual studio visit and interview by Laura Mandel of JArts, in which we discuss art, Kafka, time, Augustine, and my exhibit at the Rice Polak Gallery.

POETRY

Stay Inspired

From a series of inspired pairings by Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Click the images for full size pdf

BOOK:

Disrupted Realism:
Paintings for a Distracted World

by John Seed

NOW IN ITS SECOND PRINTING! Disrupted Realism is the first book to survey the works of contemporary painters who are challenging and reshaping the tradition of Realism. Schiffer Publishing, hardcover, 208 pages, 9 x 12 inches.