Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 20, 2007|Volume 35, Number 26

"Reaching" is one of the works by Nancy Rubens on display in a new exhibit at the Slifka Center.

Abstract works by Nancy Rubens
are on display at Slifka Center

Recent art by Nancy Rubens will be on exhibit through May 20 at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St.

In her previous work (featured in the 2003 exhibition "Passages" at the Slifka Center), Rubens explored the medium of collage -- using discarded objects, many of which contained cultural significance. Although much more abstract, her new "Blade/Scape Series" is a logical continuation of this process, says Rubens.

"Each painting is a visual stream of consciousness, a string of associations brought together into a coherent whole," the artist says of her work. "The paintings incorporate collaged elements, the ephemera of everyday life and not just my life. Many of the papers are found by chance, and many are collected for me by others."

She notes, "It is an achievement to take disparate, discarded papers and found objects which are past their usefulness and to give them purpose, to find new meanings and a strange kind of poetry through context."

In her works, say the exhibit organizers, Rubens establishes "distinct moods that nevertheless encourage individual interpretation -- generating a sense of motion while examining the forces that create it."

The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale is home to Young Israel House at Yale and Yale Hillel. It serves Yale students, faculty and staff as well as members of the greater New Haven community by providing social, religious and cultural programming, including lectures, conferences, film festivals and arts events. For further information, visit www.yale.edu/slifka.

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