Charter Oak Cultural Center presents JERUSALEM BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

The Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, CT presents a virtual exhibit of the Jewish Art Salon’s JERUSALEM BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

Virtual Exhibit Opening: Monday November 16 at 6:30pm.

With Special Guest Curator Ori Z. Soltes.

ZOOM link for Virtual Exhibit Opening, Nov 16

This exhibit was assembled by Jewish Art Salon for the 3rd Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art.

Image: “Blackfire on Whitefire” by Carol Buchman

Artistic Statement from Jewish Art Salon Guest Curator Ori Z. Soltes:

A watershed yields a branching, be it of physical terrain, historical events or spiritual and aesthetic concepts. Such an idea is particularly powerful in conjunction with the city of Jerusalem. The exhibit arc encompasses multiple divergences that begin with and come back to the geological topography of Jerusalem. That topography—an outcropping of land from the Judaean plain, surrounded by valleys on three sides, offers a symbolic statement of how the spiritual foundations of Jerusalem branch in three Abrahamic directions, how multiple spiritual ramifications, legalistic and mystical, have flowed in diverse streams, and yields watersheds of aesthetic and political questions, both historical and contemporary.

The exhibit will be online Monday November 16, 2020 – Sunday January 3, 2021.

Participating artists:

Archie Rand, Susan Schwalb, Sarah Lightman, Tobi Kahn, Siona Benjamin, Joel Silverstein,Richard McBee, Ellen Holtzblatt, Gabriella Boros, Yona Verwer, Katarzyna Kozera, Alan Hobscheid, Rachel Kanter, Ben Schachter, Alex Shalom Kohav, Carol Buchman, Mark Podwal, Billha Zussman,  Miriam Stern, Ma’ayan  Aviva Shemer, Jane Logemann, Leah Raab, Dorit Jordan Dotan, Bruria Finkel, Yehudis Barmatz-Harris, Elaine Langerman, Beth Krensky, Leah Caroline & Jeremy S-Horseman, Jan Lauren Greenfield.