Rutger's Presents "Ornament and Narrative: Women Artists of Eastern Diasporas"

JEWISH ART SALON

"Lilith in the New World" by Siona Benjamin

NEW JERSEY---Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts presents the exhibtion, "Ornament and Narrative" in conjunction with The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society program of Rutgers Institute for Women and Art. This exhibit proposes two streams, ornament and narrative, that animate the work of the participating artists. Strictures against figurative representation have been, to varying degrees and at different moments in history, a part of Muslim, Christian and Jewish cultures and societies. [link]
The artists:

Siona Benjamin (India), lives and works in New Jersey 

Lalla Eassaydi (Morocco) lives and works in New York 

Sissi Ferassat (Iran) lives and works in Vienna 

Naomi Safran-Hon (Israel) lives and works in New York 

Roya Akhavan (Iran) lives and works in New York 

Soody Sharifi (Iran) lives and works in Houston 

Najla Arafa (Egypt)

Mitra Tabrizian (Iran) lives and works in London 

Shahar Yaholam (Israel) lives and works in New York

RUTGERS-CAMDEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS STEDMAN GALLERY, Third and Pearl Sts. Camden, NJ 08102 October 15 – December 15, 2012.