“Memory and Inheritance: paintings and Ceremonial Objects” is the culmination of four decades of work by Tobi Kahn, and combines his paintings and his Judaica. The exhibition was on view through November 2024 at the Museum at Eldridge Street, a historic Manhattan synagogue.
Video here:
Art as Avodah Interview:
Tobi Kahn’s art lives in two worlds. His paintings of expansive oceanic horizons, akin to the color field works of Mark Rothko, hang in the collections of major museums. His large body of sculpture and ceremonial Judaica, on the other hand, exists in the lived experience of people who visit the sacred spaces he has created around the country, and in private homes where they are used in ritual practice. Continue article here.
Interview by Max Raskin here.
See Tobi’s ritual objects pages in our Jewish Art in Sacred Spaces online gallery:
Torah Arks – https://jewishartsalon.org/sacredspaces/tobi-kahn-torah-arks/
Baby Naming Chairs – https://jewishartsalon.org/sacredspaces/tobi-kahn-baby-naming-chairs/
