Miami Congregation's Art Gallery Exhibit Explores Sukkot

FLORIDA JEWISH JOURNAL
By Sergio Carmona

"Four Species" by Shelter Serra

FLORIDA - Every Sukkot, Chabad of Midtown Miami builds its sukkah. However, this being the first year that the Maor Art Gallery, located at the same facility as the Chabad center, was opened during the holiday, the congregation wanted to make its sukkah part of an art exhibit. The exhibit "Four Species," which opened at the gallery, 3030 NE 2nd Ave. in Miami, last week and runs through Nov. 12, is a contemporary group show curated by Jon Feinstein, co-founder and curatorial director of the Humble Arts Foundation in New York, and Shana Beth Mason, a Miami-based art consultant and critic, that incorporates new works from four emerging artists in reference to the holiday. "This exhibition is intended to explore the fundamental principles behind the Sukkot festival," Beth Mason said. "Beyond ritual, custom and liturgy, 'Four Species' investigates ideas of impermanence, movement, organic life cycles and how art somehow slows the decay of everyday life." [link]