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Our print Nisan was featured at the HUC Heller Museum in NYC, in the exhibition Relative Relations after Covid 19



Nisan / April, 18" x 10", 2021
Mixed media : photography, drawing, painting,  image processing


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Zodiacs on the Lower East Side


Current virtual and interactive project 

By artists Cynthia Beth Rubin and Yona Verwer,

 and web designer Kris Tonski.

View here


The site is a work-in-progress; expected finish date December 2022.



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BLOOD, FIRE AND PILLARS OF SMOKE - Passover Art


With artists Mark Podwal, Cynthia Beth Rubin and Yona Verwer. 

Curated by Judith Joseph and Dorit Jordan Dotan for the Jewish Art Salon.


View video here


This session aired live on Tuesday March 9, 2021.




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Museum Moments: 
Explore the art of Tu B'Shevat 


View video here


Jewish Museum Milwaukee and Jewish Art Salon present: Museum Moments: Explore the art of "Tu B'Shevat" with Jewish Art Salon artists Cynthia Beth Rubin and Yona Verwer.


In these 15 minutes Cynthia and Yona talk about the upcoming holiday of Tu B' Shevat (New Year for the Trees), and show their latest collaborative art work (with web developer Kris Tonski) related to this theme.


The session was moderated by Molly Dubin, Curator of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, on January 26, 2021.





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Origins + Journeys



Cynthia Beth Rubin, Kris Tonski, Yona Verwer


A juried online exhibition 


organized by ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts HERE





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ARt, ARchitecture & AR:  
Augmented Reality & Jewish Art

by Cynthia Beth Rubin & Yona Verwer



Art Exhibition on Governors Island, NY 
Presented by Art Kibbutz

Artists Cynthia Beth Rubin and Yona Verwer, as interpreters of history, weave together the stories of the past and the present in layers of paint, photographs, video, and recording. Their collaborative project consists of digital prints, acrylic paint, and augmented reality on canvas. 

The imagery reflects the former Jewish immigrant neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side, mixed with traditional signs and motifs from existing and lost synagogues. 

Using an iPad or smartphone, the viewer triggers Augmented Reality videos embedded in the artwork, embarking on a discovery process of experiencing the layered history of the Lower East Side. 

These videos include the spoken voice of a historian (Elissa Sampson), imagery of related symbols from other historic sources such as medieval manuscripts, Yiddish songs from Eastern Europe, and a photographic portrait taken more than 100 years ago in a studio on the Lower East Side. 

Digital media are integral part of both the development and the user experience in this series. First, there was the layering of imagery that was facilitated by the mixture of layers of physical paint and printed digital imagery, which in turn was developed from both photographic and painterly output of each of the artists. Secondly, the wide range of Augmented Reality videos are derived from the artists’ own diverse interests and in turn what they anticipate as the varied interests of the public. 

In addition to their collaborative series, the artists each show a few solo works as well, also based on Jewish architecture. Verwer shows works inspired by Lower East Side synagogues; Rubin shows European synagogues. 

Art review in NY Jewish Week here.


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The Koslowe Gallery presents                            
Meditations on Place


Koslowe Gallery
Westchester Jewish Center
175 Rockland Ave.
Mamaroneck, NY 10543

On view through August 10th, 2016

Viewing hours 9-5 M-T, 9-1 F, 9-1 Sunday

More info on the exhibit here







































More images here







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The Mishkan Museum of Art presents

 
New York / New Work: Contemporary Jewish Art from NYC


Opening Reception Friday November 13, 2015, 11:30 AM

Exhibit on view until January 31, 2016
Mishkan Museum of Art

New York/New Work presents, for the first time in Israel, some of the current major and canonical artists of contemporary Jewish art in the United States. These artists hail from different diasporic spaces and appropriate Jewish traditions on their own terms. Their contributions to the development of contemporary American Judaism in the context of a dual diasporic lens are considerable: on the one hand, they examine the Diaspora’s relationship with itself; and, on the other hand, they look at its relationship with other diasporic locations.

Cynthia and Yona are exhibiting their collaborative art work History, Heritage & the Lower East Side #2

Co-curator David Sperber wrote:
"The particularistic history of American Jewry is addressed in the works of Yona Verwer and Cynthia Beth Rubin, who employ the new technology of Augmented Reality to add layers of meaning and association to their New York’s Lower East Side imagery."

Artists in the exhibition include Helène Aylon, Siona Benjamin, Tobi Kahn, Rachel Kanter, Robert Kirschbaum, Richard McBee, Archie Rand, Cynthia Beth Rubin, Joel Silverstein, Eli Valley, Yona Verwer, David Wander, and Ahron Weiner. Curated by Dvora Liss and David Sperber.

More info on the exhibit here

RELATED PROGRAMMING

In conjunction with the exhibit two symposiums took place at the museum:

January 29, 2016  - Symposium on Femininity and Masculinity in Jewish Art. Info here.
December 11, 2015 - Joseph Beuys and Jewish Art. Info here.


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Curators: Dvora Liss and David Sperber.

The Jewish Art Salon’s Pavilion at the Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Institute.

October 24 - November 5, 2015

Opening reception September 24.

Panel discussion / film screening September 30

Symposium November 1

Wednesday 30th of September, 16:30 – 19:30
NEW YORK / NEW WORK – PANEL & FILMS
Polonsky Auditorium, 
Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 43 Jabotinsky Street.

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Hidden Links: Exploring Jewish Identity: The Work of Cynthia Beth Rubin and Yona Verwer


Produced by the Mizel Museum, Denver, CO, and the Center for the Arts Evergreen. 
Curated by Georgina Kolber and Stephanie Perkins.

Center for the Arts, Evergreen, Colorado.
July 30 – September 4, 2015. 
Opening Reception July 30, 4-7 PM.

The Temple, 
2400 Curtis St., Denver, CO 80205
Opening Reception: October 8, 5:00-8:00 PM 
September 21 - November 20, 2015

New York artists Cynthia Beth Rubin and Yona Verwer exhibit works created together and separately, demonstrating how very different paths led each artist to an exploration of Jewish history and heritage that naturally culminated in a collaborative works. Working together as interpreters of history and heritage as they photograph, document, represent, and weave together the stories of the past and the present.
Their Lower East Side banners are conceptually layered with augmented reality, drawing upon interviews with neighborhood historian Elissa Sampson, and music by Bob Gluck.

More info on the exhibit here

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Shmita ArtFest


Curated by Leah Caroline
Produced by Art Kibbutz NY

Governors Island, NY

Six artworks of the History / Heritage series will be exhibited.

August-September, 2015. Opening Event August 9



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Our first collaborative work in this series is included in the exhibition:

ALL | TOGETHER | DIFFERENT
A survey of current Lower East Side artists steadfastly engaged with the forever-changing and forever-the-same neighborhood
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Ernest Rubenstein and Jewish Communal Galleries
Manny Cantor Center
197 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002

February 12-April 1, 2015.

Curated by Linda Griggs, with curatorial advisor Yona Verwer.

More info on the exhibit here






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