Yehudhith December 1, 2011

Now through January 29, 2012, Mon-Fri 9am-6:30pm, Sat. & Sun. 9am-3pm

"The problem of what is called 'Holocaust art,' finally, is one of time. How do we keep fresh the memory of something that recedes from us continually? Soon there will be no one alive who can remember it from actual experience; from here forward, our task will be to find mnemonics, to experience the Shoah not in memory but in imagination."
-Ellen Ullman, "As Out of Smoke: The Women of Elliot Ross's Yehudhith"

Elliot Ross's portraits of contemporary Jewish women, alive and unbroken, both remind us of a generation lost, and connect us to the triumph of survival in the wake of the Nazis' systematic dehumanization of Jews and the particular horrors reserved for women.

Paired with "Yehudhith" in this exhibition is "The Grandfathers," a fifteen-part video by mother-daughter artists, Carolyn Radlo and Alanna Simone. A meditation on identity, place, projection, and recollection, the film addresses the effects of trauma felt years after the event.

http://elliotross.com
http://www.carolynradlo.com
http://www.alannasimone.com

Official Website: http://www.ciis.edu/arts