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Sacred Presence/Painterly Process
Sacred Presence/Painterly Process – Jill Nathanson’s “Seeing Sinai” and “New Translations: Genesis,” will be on view from September 26 to December 19, 2010 at the Derfner Judaica Museum. An opening reception and artist’s talk will take place on Sunday, Sept. 26th from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in the Museum located in the Jacob Reingold Pavilion at The Hebrew Home at Riverdale, 5901 Palisade Avenue (off W. 261st Street), Riverdale. This event is free and open to the public. R.S.V.P. 718-581-1596. Jill Nathanson is an abstract painter whose works in these series reflect a process of locating a relationship between biblical text and the necessity of painting. Seeing Sinai: Meditations on Exodus 33-4 was completed in 2005 following a collaboration with Arnold Eisen, now Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary. A visual commentary on Moses's encounter with God, it began with the question, "Is there anything distinctive about seeing in the Torah?" New Translations: Genesisof 2007–2010 is a series of mixed media collages - a meditation on energy and matter as it was formed, separated and ordered in the first six days of Creation. It also includes the seventh day, when God rested. Nathanson uses discarded studio materials, plastics, paper and paint, to structure her reflections on the relationships between the different parts of existence. These unbounded assemblages have been created out of the artist's own "welter and waste" - a metaphor for the tohu wabohu, the earth’s state at the beginning of Creation. New Translationshas been influenced by such literary texts as Robert Alter's Genesis: Translation and Commentary and Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg's The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis, as well as other contemporary and ancient biblical interpretations, known in Hebrew as midrashim. Continuously experimenting with visual human responses to paint, Nathanson's paintings reflect her search to reconcile the physical properties of paint - viscosities, fluidity, translucency, color relations - with the metaphoric and spiritual transformations that painting can provoke. Jill Nathanson is a New York-based abstract painter. She received a BA from Bennington College in 1976 and an MFA from Hunter College in 1982. She has been exhibiting her work in New York galleries and internationally since 1981. She is currently represented by Messineo Art Projects/Wyman Contemporary. An exhibition of Nathanson's small abstract paintings at Messineo Art Projects/Wyman Contemporary in Chelsea will also be on view from mid-November through December. Visit www.messineowyman.com for further details. This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. |
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