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The Biblical Art of Richard McBee on Exhibition @ Brooklyn College

Friends:

You are cordially invited to the opening reception and exhibition of:

SARAH’S TRIALS

Paintings by Richard McBee

© Richard McBee

Left: Abraham Takes Hagar Right: Sarah Despairs © Richard McBee

Thursday, March 26, 2009 – June 5, 2009

Cocktail Reception – Thursday, March 26, 2009
5pm to 8pm
Gold Room, 6th Floor
Brooklyn College Art Gallery

This new series of 16 large (5′ X 6′) paintings explores the difficult and puzzling marital relationship between Sarah and Abraham found in Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.

Set in contemporary terms these narrative paintings scrutinize: monotheism and the goddess, the perils of self-sacrifice, Hagar, the demands of Divine decree and familial tragedy.

Brooklyn College Student Center
Gold Room Conference Center; 6th Floor
Campus Road & East 27th Street,
Brooklyn, New York 11210

Subway: 2 or 5 train to Flatbush Ave./Nostrand Ave.
Other times; By Appointment Only:
Contact: Ryan Buck
718 951 5528
ryanbuck@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Sponsored by the Student Center and Division of Student Affairs

Jewish Shoe Factory Revisited – Williamsburg, Brooklyn 1997

Originally shot in 1997 © Frank H. Jump

Originally shot in 1997 © Frank H. Jump

Other Jewish Shoe factory postings.

Originally posted on the Fading Ad Campaign website in 1999.

The Art of Richard McBee @ the Chassid Art Institute – 375 Kingston – Crown Heights, Brooklyn

© Richard McBee

Akeida - 1996 30" x 32 " - Until February 22nd 2009 © Richard McBee

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Joseph & Potifar's Wife (2002) - 20" x 16" oil on canvas - (not exhibited) © Richard McBee

Rockwood & Co. – United Talmudical Academy – Washington Ave. – Brooklyn Navy Yard

Rockwood & Co. - United Talmudical Academy - Brooklyn Navy Yard © Frank H. Jump

Rockwood & Co. - United Talmudical Academy - Brooklyn Navy Yard - © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Hebrew Ladies Day Nursery – Thomas Boylan Avenue – East NY, Brooklyn

Hebrew Ladies Day Nursery - Thomas Boyland Avenue - East NY, Brooklyn

Hebrew Ladies Day Nursery - Thomas Boyland Avenue - East NY, Brooklyn

Knickerbocker Avenue Shul & Plumbing Ad – Bushwick, Brooklyn

Knickerbocker Avenue Shul & Plumbing Ad

Knickerbocker Avenue Shul & Plumbing Ad

Knickerbocker Avenue Shul & Plumbing Ad

Knickerbocker Avenue Shul & Plumbing Ad

Knickerbocker Avenue Shul & Plumbing Ad
© Frank H. Jump

Synagogue or shul

Another view

Public Market & Mikva – Boro Park, Brooklyn

Public Market & Mikva

Public Market & Mikva

Public Market & Mikva

Public Market & Mikva

Public Market & Mikva

Public Market & Mikva
© Frank H. Jump

Mikvah or mikveh?

“He has a side?”Woody Allen/Deconstructing Harry

Biyur Chametz – The Burning of the Leavened Bread – Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Burning the Bread on Flushing Avenue

Burning the Bread on Flushing Avenue

Burning the Bread on Flushing Avenue

Burning the Bread on Flushing Avenue

Burning the Bread on Flushing Avenue

Burning the Bread on Flushing Avenue

Burning the Bread on Flushing Avenue
© Vincenzo Aiosa

Burning the Bread Before Passover – Wikipedia

Sunday Feature Fade: Potiphar's Wife – Richard McBee

© Richard McBee
© Richard McBee

Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife” oil on canvas (16 x 20) by Richard McBee

Richard McBee’s Talmud-inspired painting:

Joseph was sold by his brothers and was bought by the Egyptian courtier, Potiphar, as chief servant of his master’s house. Potiphar’s wife was determined to sleep with the handsome young man. Joseph became known as “The Righteous” for resisting her temptations. (Genesis 39: 1-21)

Richard McBee was born in 1947 in New York City. He studied painting at the Art Students League of New York with Jean Liberte and Edward Melcarth. His early works were figurative narratives concentrating on the Bible. Since 1976 he has painted subject matter exclusively from the Torah and Jewish history. In addition to paintings he has also made many figurative relief sculptures, monotypes, unique ceramic menorahs and other Judaica.

From 1976 to 1987 he was active in the Alliance of Figurative Artists, a group of artists that met weekly at the Educational Alliance on the Lower East Side. He was their Program Director in 1983. In 1991 he helped create the American Guild of Judaic Art (an educational and trade association of artists engaged in Jewish Art; see jewishart.org). McBee developed the Jewish Art Forum in 1996 and 1997. This series of free slide lectures in the New York area was given by guest artists and experts in the field of Jewish Art.

Since May 2000 he has written a weekly critical review column in The Jewish Press. His artwork is in many private collections throughout the country. – Taken from McBee’s resume.

Women & Judaism:

University of California (Santa Cruz)

Wikipedia Wikipedia

Wikipedia
Women & Gender Studies

Congregation AAA – Ahavath Achim Anshei Canarsie – Brotherly Love People of Canarsie – Brooklyn

Congregation AAA Sfard - Canarsie,Brooklyn

Congregation AAA Sfard - Canarsie,Brooklyn

Congregation AAA Sfard - Canarsie,Brooklyn

Congregation AAA Sfard - Canarsie,Brooklyn

Congregation AAA Sfard - Canarsie,Brooklyn

Congregation AAA Sfard - Canarsie,Brooklyn

Congregation AAA Sfard - Canarsie,Brooklyn

Congregation AAA Sfard - Canarsie,Brooklyn

Congregation AAA Sfard - Canarsie,Brooklyn
© Frank H. Jump

9420 Glenwood Road – Established 1908Congregation Ahavath Achim Anshei Canarsie – Brotherly Love People of Canarsie (alternate name)¹

Superpages - Microsoft Virtual Earth

¹ Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Writers Project; Survey of State and Local Historical Records (1939); Church Records Jewish – Synagogue –
http://home.att.net/~landsmanshaft/synagogues.htm

More Canarsie history.