tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6176351071230477052024-02-02T00:13:18.591-08:00History, Heritage & the Lower East SideA collaborative project by Cynthia Beth Rubin and Yona Verwer exploring New York City's historic Lower East Side through mixed media paintings incorporating augmented realityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617635107123047705.post-81808461343453241352015-02-21T21:35:00.011-08:002021-05-02T17:39:13.201-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ABOUT HISTORY, HERITAGE and the LOWER EAST SIDE</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two Jewish artists, Cynthia Beth Rubin and Yona Verwer, with very different artistic histories and interests, came together in creating this collaborative work depicting symbolism and memories surrounding the 12 months in the Jewish calendar. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2014 the artists embarked on a collaborative series, eventually centering on the Zodiacs found in the Stanton Street Shul on the Lower East Side of NYC as a point of departure for their then divergent interests, as Cynthia Beth Rubin brought years of explorations of imagined cultural memories and architectural spaces, and Yona Verwer brought a deep knowledge of Jewish ritual and Biblical text. Together they embarked on sharing their expertise and exchanging perceptions in the best tradition of “study partners,” resulting in a series exploring Jewish immigrant experience, ritual, and tradition. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Motifs from the Stanton Street Shul, as a site of Jewish immigrant life past and present, inform this work. In telling these stories, the artists drew on Rubin’s family roots in the Jewish immigrant experience combined with Verwer’s knowledge of the Zodiacs on the walls of the Stanton Street Shul, where she had once been a congregant. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Digital image processing is key to the collaborations produced by Rubin and Verwer, as it provides the means for the interweaving of each artist’s individual interpretations and artistic sensibilities, in arriving at works that in turn interweave historical, personal and religious symbolism. Photographic sources and analogue paintings are seamlessly integrated within the computer, using layers of color, texture, and form manipulation to arrive at imagery that merges the intentions and observations of both artists. Joint visits to historical sites, especially the Stanton Street Shul and the lower east side, are of course an essential component of working together, as each artist shares her knowledge and personal associations in observational conversation. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the collaboration developed, each artist enriched the perspective of the other, so that gradually their individual interests crossed and informed the thinking of the other. The ongoing series continues to challenge each of them to think more expansively. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">The first part of the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">project consists of banners on canvas and prints on paper, which have been exhibited in NYC, nationally and internationally.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Recently the artists collaborated with web developer Kris Tonski to create an interactive website <a href="http://zodiacs-les.nyc" target="_blank">Zodiacs on the Lower East Side</a>. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://zodiacs-les.nyc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="1068" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiClxQtiQADaE9UGDN7sitzroYC4bC2LrXEcuCdW4LPFvSHcP87_CUxiTuMCe1-b5vGstUo0GS8w5cXMEHc9xTVrY8a4vYkzvoh2vDC09qlUk103Ewrxp7w0FNB0wsCcbGBMvgKj1ojNVo/s320/Zodiacs_LES_header.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This work-in-progress allows the viewer to hover over each page where three short videos pop up.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">______________________________________________</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Images of some previous exhibitions</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After installing "History, Heritage & the Lower East Side at the Jerusalem Biennale 2015.</span></div>
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Cynthia (r) and Yona (l) show a hidden video, that is embedded in the artwork, on their iPad.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiacKDfL7496b-d37T_DIT2u1Q1rLrH695n5vt3Cy2nD_YKfYtI6n5FjsRWroBoI34MgQiGEgdEi_O8qO9IiCPcTItUdm4c5g22GFucrXxPpKC16bQHCh03qU0Zls5_RYQ_lrzFuuQK24/s1328/Ipad_Ein_Harod_Ipad_Dvora+copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1328" data-original-width="747" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiacKDfL7496b-d37T_DIT2u1Q1rLrH695n5vt3Cy2nD_YKfYtI6n5FjsRWroBoI34MgQiGEgdEi_O8qO9IiCPcTItUdm4c5g22GFucrXxPpKC16bQHCh03qU0Zls5_RYQ_lrzFuuQK24/w360-h640/Ipad_Ein_Harod_Ipad_Dvora+copy.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Curator Dvora Liss at the Ein Harod Museum in Israel viewing the videos on the Ipad</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvRZvLeON9knTGWFiYk5ILQk3SYALk5FWtqUiL5eAqxC1zM4ltRCa6BHe-u0NJ_5d0dd7k2mU7omcoRgzIuBDzE_K8wF3xoVfKhF9MhGoIFW-oo3PZxe2NeMC9CyBD5vdWE1zUikxgiDA/s1262/Workshop_Denver.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="1262" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvRZvLeON9knTGWFiYk5ILQk3SYALk5FWtqUiL5eAqxC1zM4ltRCa6BHe-u0NJ_5d0dd7k2mU7omcoRgzIuBDzE_K8wF3xoVfKhF9MhGoIFW-oo3PZxe2NeMC9CyBD5vdWE1zUikxgiDA/w640-h350/Workshop_Denver.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cynthia and Yona conducting an Augmented Reality workshop at the Denver exhibition</span></div>
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