About Rebecca Guber

I was in Israel a few months ago, and while climbing around the labyrinthine staircases of old Jaffa, I heard charming, unearthly music emanating from an open doorway. My other professional art-viewing friend and I had made a pact not … Read More

Avishai Yeganyahu Mekonen’s work draws out an assimilation narrative that many of us encounter as part of our own family history. He shows us a story of the Ethiopian Jewish community in contemporary Israel, where culture, race, and religion make … Read More

Very quickly, I get drawn in Rachel Klinghoffer Bender’s paintings, and my mind begins to wander in a waking dreamscape. Her work activates an in-between space, where reality and fantasy merge in a very natural way, evoking a time and … Read More

Holiday angst is one part social anxiety, one part overeating, and a large dose of family neurosis. In the midst of this moment, I’ve been captured by the work of artist Jamie Diamond. Her work, thankfully, takes us outside of … Read More

Stacy Mehrfar’s work is all about a sense of place, from the wide angle loneliness of the anonymous suburban landscape, to the particularity of the Iranian Jewish community in Great Neck, Long Island. Her photographs seem to be so perfectly … Read More

I like to touch art. I enjoy touching it when it is expected, when the artist and work call for interaction, and I’m also drawn to touching the cool marble at the Met, with guards ready to condemn the slightest … Read More

Artist Michele Brody anticipated the green, local movement that currently sweeping through contemporary life. Her installations, often public and site-specific, explores place and marks the passage of time, inviting interaction from viewers as it grows and changes. These striking pieces … Read More