Elliott Ross: Yehudith

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Carolyn Radio and Alanna Simone: The Grandfather's

November 4, 2011-January 29, 2012


4th Floor Gallery

 This exhibition pairs Elliot Ross’s portraits of contemporary Jewish women, alive and unbroken in the wake of the Nazis’ systematic dehumanization of Jews, with Carolyn Radlo and Alanna Simone’s fifteen-part video meditation on identity, place, projection, and recollection.

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.

The Grandfathers is 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