The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will honor the memory of noted Yale child psychiatrist Dr. Donald Cohen with an art exhibition titled "Tikkun Ha'Olam: Meditations in Blue," featuring paintings by Mindy Weisel.
The art will be on view in the Rabinowitz Gallery of the Slifka Center, 80 Wall St., from Feb. 20 though April 10. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, Feb. 21, 4:30-6 p.m. The artist will be present, as will members of the Yale community who will memorialize Cohen. The event is free and open to the public.
Cohen, director of the Child Study Center and the Sterling Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology, died in October 2001. Widely recognized as the leading American child psychiatrist of his generation, he was also known as a great scientist, psychoanalyst, social policy advocate and institution builder. He made groundbreaking contributions in biological psychiatry, clinical care and the development of international collaborations in child psychiatry. Cohen joined the faculty of the School of Medicine in 1972 and became director of the Child Study Center in 1983.
"Donald Cohen was a great friend to the Slifka Center and a warm and caring mentor to generations of Jewish students at Yale," says Amy Aaland, managing director of the Slifka Center. "He was a visionary force for the campaign to create the Slifka Center and was an inspired leader of the [center's] board." The Slifka Center provides a central location for Yale Hillel, a kosher kitchen, religious services and a wide variety of cultural, political, educational and social programs for Yale and the New Haven community.
Weisel's art hangs in museums and public spaces around the world, including the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and the National Museum of American Art, the Israel Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the U.S. Capitol. Her work has been featured in 18 one-person and more than 30 group exhibitions since 1977. Weisel has been nominated for awards in the visual arts and participated in the State Department's Art in Embassies Program. An interview about her art and life aired in 1997 on CNN's "Impact." Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, Art News and other publications.
Writing on the artist, Michael Welzenbach comments that "Weisel paints the passion of life, the intensity of the moment. Her richly colored abstracts positively glow. Slashed and dashed with gestural writing and mysterious imagery in dark blacks and crystal blues, greens and reds, these enormous watercolors define emotions ranging from the deepest brooding sadness to gayest laughter ... Weisel's energy communicates directly, from heart to heart."
The exhibition is made possible by the Allan and Leah Rabinowitz Art Fund of Yale Hillel. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Friday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
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