TIDINGS OF ZION Nisan/Iyar 5779 MT. ZION CONGREGATION, Sioux Falls, South Dakota May 2019 From the Congregation President... SEE ARTWORK AT: https://www.israel21c.org/10-talented- israeli-artists-making-their-mark-on-the-worlds-canvas/ Dr. Mark Oppenheimer 10 talented Israeli artists making their mark on the world’s canvas Painters, sculptors, fi ber and street artists add splashes of Israeli creativity to museums, public and private spaces in countries large and small. Think of the icons of modern Israeli art, and maybe Menashe Kadishman’s simple A graduate of New York’s Pratt Institute, Goldman works in multiple media sheep paintings or Yaacov Agam’s colorful kinetic sculptures will come to mind. including performance art. His creations have been exhibited at museums such But there are many other contemporary visual artists from Israel making their as the Israel Museum, Museum of Islamic Art, Ein Harod Museum, Philadelphia mark internationally. Here are just a few, new and veteran, to watch on the world Museum of Jewish Art and the Vienna Jewish Museum. canvas. In the fall of 2018, Goldman was one of fi ve international artists – the others were YOSEF “JOJO” OHAYON Andi Arnovitz (see below), Lynne Avadenka, Meydad Eliyahu and Leora Wise — chosen for a three-week Venice art residency on climate change through a Jewish Born in Casablanca in 1958, Jojo became a farmer in Israel while pursuing art as lens. Goldman now is fi nishing a three-stage sculpture installation in an old Jew- a hobby. Eventually he began incorporating farming equipment and techniques ish cemetery in Kaluszyn, Poland. into his artwork, leading to unusual artistic methods including water pressure to manipulate metal into artwork and furniture. HILLA BEN ARI In his paintings, Jojo uses bottles with a tiny hole cut from the end to distribute This kibbutz-raised visual artist with a degree from Bezalel Academy of Art and the colors in uniform patterns across large canvases, creating signature pieces that Design in Jerusalem uses video, sculpture and other media to depict the female portray women, fl owers and other forms of nature. form as a medium to explore identity, sexuality, and the relationship between men and women. Jojo Ohayon using a bottle technique to create an abstract painting. Photo: cour- tesy Ben Ari’s work has been displayed in Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Bonn, Brussels, Bucharest, Bulgaria, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Van- Jojo’s oeuvre includes murals, abstract paintings, metal chairs and wall sculp- couver and other global cities and at many Israeli museums and galleries. She has tures, vases and mosaic sculptures. His pieces are exhibited in galleries and received awards at arts festivals in Madrid and Tokyo. owned by buyers in Israel, the United States, Europe, Australia and China. Through the Visiting Israeli Artists Program, Ben Ari is teaching at the University Jojo opened his fi rst gallery 10 years ago in Tel Aviv, followed by a New York of Florida Gainesville during the 2019 spring semester. A special exhibition of City gallery and a website that sells his works with free worldwide shipping. He her work debuted at the university’s Gary R. Libby Gallery in the Fine Arts on also has a studio and showroom at the Dead Sea. March 25. KEN GOLDMAN BROKEN FINGAZ In September 2006, kibbutz-based conceptual artist-sculptor Ken Goldman’s Israel’s most successful street-art crew – four men who don’t reveal their real soft, colorful Kabbala dolls were an instant hit at the annual toy audition at FAO names — got started in Haifa and branched out across the globe with commis- Schwarz in New York City. Since then, Goldman’s clever, provocative and eclec- sions ranging from pop-art murals to 3D installations to album covers and U2 tic works of Judaica have been exhibited, installed and sold widely. music videos. “Goldman’s work is an exuberant, idiosyncratic celebration of Jewish practice,” Paris, London, Bratislava, Las Vegas, Bremen, Chengdu, Los Angeles, Milan, wrote Ben Schachter in his 2017 book, Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art, which devotes a chapter to Goldman and features “With Without” on its cover, an image of Goldman himself “wearing” a kippah of his own hair. President’s column - continued on page 2 SAVE THE DATES!! September 13th, 14th and 15th 2019 are the dates that we will celebrate 100 YEARS of Mt. Zion Congregation’s “life”. Specifi c plans will be outlined in the near future, but for now, please mark your calendars and share the dates with Mt. Zion’s friends and families from near and far, past and present. All will be welcome! Thank you!!! PAGE 1 President’s column - continued from page 1 Berlin, Krakow, Rio de Janeiro, Seattle, Portland, Dusseldorf, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Mexico City… there’s hardly a major city (and some remote ones, like Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam) these four guys haven’t DONATIONS livened up with their splashy graphics. (March 10 - April 9, 2019) ANDI ARNOVITZ Jerusalem-based conceptual artist Andi Arnovitz uses installations, prints, artist books and sculpture to explore Please send all Temple contributions to: issues of infertility, divorce, domestic violence, gender, politics and religion, and the Israeli-Palestinian con- PO Box 756, Sioux Falls, SD 57101 fl ict. Her work has been exhibited across the world (including France, Spain, England, Poland, Canada, China, GENERAL FUND Finland, Germany, Lithuania and the United States) and is in public and private collections including the US Library of Congress, The Smithsonian, the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life in California, and Yale In memory of MaDonna Hicks University in Connecticut. with sympathy to Steve, Deb “My goal is to seduce the viewer visually, to lure them into a closer examination of the work and then to con- front them with a problem or issue, and cause them to re-examine their views, engage with a specifi c subject and Elana Hicks from Marilyn & and increase their awareness of a problem,” Arnovitz tells ISRAEL21c. Dave Aronson; Mark & Matilda This spring, her works are showing in the Sichuan Museum of Fine Art in China, the Jewish Museum of Ber- lin, Susquehanna Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and Yale. In the summer and fall of 2019, Arnovitz will exhibit Oppenheimer at the HUC Museum in Manhattan and Stadhaus Museum in Germany as well as Israeli locations. FATMA SHANAN DERY In memory of Hilde and Lou Tel Aviv-based Fatma Shanan Dery’s large-scale oil paintings suggest fl uid defi nitions of gender, national and ethnic identities through scenes of people (including herself) from circles of her life — especially from Julis, Wolf from the Walter S Mander the Israeli Druze village where she was born and raised. Traditional Druze rugs placed in unexpected locations Foundation, Chuck Wolf, Susan Wolf fi gure prominently in her work. Winner of a 2016 prize for fi gurative-realist art given by the Tel Aviv Museum, Shanan Dery has done artist and Family residencies in New York, California and at the Artport program in Tel Aviv. Her works are included in the col- lections of the Israel Museum and Ilana Goor Museum in Israel and in private collections in Israel and abroad. Shanan Dery’s 2019 calendar includes a solo exhibition in Berlin, and group exhibitions in New York, Cyprus, In memory of Walter Mander from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. the Walter S Mander Foundation, ARIELA WERTHEIMER Chuck Wolf, Susan Wolf and Family Ariela Wertheimer, an Israeli philanthropist listed in Forbes’ 2018 “The World’s Richest People,” has been painting professionally since 1997. In 2017 and 2018, Wertheimer displayed at the annual Art Biennale in Venice with Tel Aviv’s Farkash Gallery, To the Congregation from Dave & and in November 2018 opened her own studio in Jaff a. Wertheimer made her US debut in 2018 at Scope Miami Beach and her Asian debut at Singapore Art Week in Marilyn Aronson January 2019. She will be featured at the 2019 Artexpo in New York City, April 4-7, and then Art Biennale in Venice this May. Toward the Passover Seder from Jan Ariela Wertheimer’s “Ropes and Ties” was shown at Scope Miami in 2018. Photo: courtesy At Scope, she exhibited the Jaff a Port-inspired “Ropes and Ties: The Freedom to Let Go,” which symbolizes Forstein the physical and conscious/emotional ropes that are intertwined in the world. “The strings made from plant fi bers which have created a twine into a rope … have accompanied humankind from the beginning. The ropes allow, the ropes restrict, the ropes connect with other ropes and a continuity is To the Congregation in appreciation created,” she explains. of its support of the MultiFaith PIERRE KLEINHOUSE st Award-winning illustrator and designer Pierre Kleinhouse has a Tel Aviv studio, where he does artworks for Service on March 31 from Marilyn exhibitions and commercial clients. He also gives talks and illustration workshops around the world. & Dave Aronson Pierre Kleinhouse’s “Bear & Welder” was done for the Museum of Communism in Czech Republic. Photo: courtesy The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design graduate has built up an impressive clientele including Stella Artois, A Note from the UPS, BBC Focus, HarperCollins, Rolling Stone magazine, Harvard Business Review, Museum of Commu- nism in Czech Republic, Moog Audio, Virgin Mobile, Krispy Kreme and Oxford University Press. Treasurer DAVID GERSTEIN Gerstein’s pop-art paintings and sculptures speak in a universal language of playfulness, humor and optimism. True to his “art for everyone” motto, his works range in price from $100 to $1.5 million, and are sold in his Tel Dear Mount Zion Temple Members Aviv gallery, in design shops and online.