Art Gallery

A Sense of Place: High Holidays Exhibition

This High Holiday season is particularly rooted in the importance of place as we gather in our newly renovated sanctuary. What would the High Holidays be without our synagogue home, BEKI, where generation after generation our community has gathered to celebrate and pray together? 

Places bear witness to the past, gather meaning over the course of generations, forge new memories, and  ground us in our daily lives. Even places that we have never been to, that we only barely know of, provide us with a sense of where we are as individuals in the great world.

Rachel Adelstein, Carole Bass, Morris Bell, Toni Davis, Mimi Glenn, Diane Kremlin, Yaron Lew, Jennifer Myer, Annie Norman-Schiff, David Ottenstein, Helen Rosenberg, Cynthia Rubin, Sascha van Creveld, Rebecca Weiner and Dan Weintraub are among the BEKI members who have volunteered to share works of art, in a variety of media, that depict a place of significance in their lives.  

Some of the art captures  places that BEKI members have known intimately, that  have been woven into their daily lives. Others  illustrate places that members have never visited, or time periods in which they never lived, representing a “nostalgia for places never visited*.” Some of the artworks were inherited from people who held memories of the place dear, while others were lucky finds at thrift shops.

We present these places over this holiday season to share our joy in living in the world. We invite our BEKI family to think about the complexities of our world filled with remembered and imagined places to explore.  

* from the Finnish Kaukokaipuu