 | "I will write on these tablets" is one of the paintings by Jill Nathanson featured in the "Seeing Sinai" exhibition at the Slifka Center. |
"Seeing Sinai," an exhibition of paintings by Jill Nathanson with commentary by Judaic scholar Arnold Eisen, will be on display March 20-April 27 in the Allan and Leah Rabinowitz Gallery of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.
In conjunction with the show, there will be a panel discussion on Monday, March 20, at 4:30 p.m. with Nathanson and Eisen, and two Yale community members: Leslie Brisman, the Karl Young Professor of English, who specializes in biblical study; and Shira Brisman, a doctoral candidate in the history of art.
Both the show and the panel discussion are open to the public free of charge.
Nathanson is a New York painter associated with Lori Bookstein Fine Art, a gallery that places special emphasis on American modernism, color and the legacy of artist Hans Hofmann, under whom Nathanson studied. Eisen is chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University and is considered an expert in the modern transformations of Jewish religious belief and practice. His most recent book, "Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community," received the Koret Jewish Book Award.
"'Seeing Sinai' is a meditation on Exodus 33-34: key passages on vision in the Torah," explains Nathanson. "It is also a meditation on the relationship between contemplation of painting and contemplation of the invisible God in Jewish tradition."
Noting that she uses large free forms and vivid colors that build up from one part of the painting to the next, Nathanson says, "As a painter, I imagine such an approach to color to be analogous to ideas in Kabbalah in which God is imagined as multifaceted, and prayer experienced as a journey through the parts towards unity. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught that we can also look on every person as a shiviti, reminding us of God's constant presence."
Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale is located at 80 Wall Street. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.- 7 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday-Sunday.
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