It was incredibly liberating when I discovered how I could trust my own instincts and sense of beauty to explore and experiment my way into creating powerful art. And it's exciting to help others discover they absolutely have what it takes to do the same. I'm launching my painting classes for the month. Once a month, give yourself a few hours to enter the redemptive, thirst-quenching land of color and shape. Everyone can do it. I hope you can join me. #art #redemption #color #class Sign up below, only 1 spot in each class: https://app.moonclerk.com/pay/2ln71wumqas1

It’s been a long time since we were able to begin again. This past summer, was a time of falling, of struggling, of tripping, of trying to stay afloat, and then finding, in the wreckage, lots of ways in which we could form a bridge, work together, have a better perspective, and be happier. From suffering, says the Rav, comes redemption. But the chaggim came, and the holidays are an avalanche, a tidal wave, another time of instability, lack of structure. So I held on. Challah by challah, pot roast by brisket, I ate, I danced, I prayed and I waited. And finally, it was over. We could begin again. This has been the first week in a very long time that I had sufficient time to refill my emotional wellsprings, to find my own vessel of an ark in order to float about the storm. This is the piece that emerged. #redemption #color #painting #nycartists #artistsoninstagram #clouds #power From Darkness, Comes Light Acrylic on canvas, 24 X 36

What I learned about being more than your tribe through painting Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Reverand Martin Luther King, Jr. full post in bio and avail on society6!! #unity #protest #raiseup #blackjewishalliance #economicjustice #racialjustice #heschel #king #torah #truth #color #painting

These were so fantastic, I want to share individually. Beautiful work by @hannahlouise141 @sylphinthecity @annazb412 @elishevs.m @alyon4a @paulinisky73 @ figure drawing final summer session! 💛🤩 #figuredrawing #art #brooklyn #figure #gorgeous #summerinthecity #color #freedom

“Embracing Detachment/ Talmud Torah" There is an idea that there are “70 faces to the Torah”; a vast amount of perspectives and interpretations to Jewish law and what the Torah meant when it said what it did. I think a lot of people use it as a type of peaceful “can’t we all just get along”, “different ways are fine too”. That was the only way I understood it, too, until I emailed my Rav years ago about a question regarding hair covering. A friend had shown me a Jewish law book she followed in which the author refuted the often-practiced habit in many Orthodox circles of Jewish women wearing headscarves, with some hair showing, condoned from a Moshe Feinstein letter. The author, advocating for a wig or complete hair covering, said that letter was only intended for that one person, and anyone following that letter was basically breaking Jewish law. I was shocked. What? What happened to my beloved “70 faces to the Torah”, different ways are good too, just not what I practice? My Rav basically chuckled in the letter he wrote back. I quote it now, because it was said so perfectly: "It is the nature of rabbis that they disagree with each other on the understanding of halacha. This is largely what the mitzva of Talmud Torah is about. There are endless examples of contemporary rabbis claiming that those who disagree with them really did not mean what they said and in fact agree.” The glorious letter goes on. With my own experiences of stepping out of what other Orthodox Jews around us believe to be “the way” (eruv crisis!), or what I see as people going against “the way” in a social justice sense, I understand the dilemma of combining love and vehement disagreement acutely. This pieces is about that challenge. Of the joy of our faith in disagreeing and seeing different sides, and acknowledging the profound challenge in seeing someone’s point of view as going too far, too much, and yet, still, somehow, embracing them. Embracing detachment. It is what my Rav was able to do, with a laugh, as he responded to me, and it is something I hope to be able to do as well.#70faces #love #arguing #jews #embrace #detachment #life #color #light #artistsoninstagram

“The Sensation of Being Jewish in a Jewish Land” #summersale on this lithograph. 22x30, framed and matted. I created this piece after my Birthright trip, in which the unbridled glory and difference of being Jewish in a Jewish land washed over me. Returning to my college time, I noted the distinct energy shift and wanted to create a piece to capture what I had found there. Pm me to purchase :) #pride #joy #artforsale #israel #jewish #jump #exalt #identity #brooklynartist #artistsoninstagram #blackandwhite

#summersale looking to spread light and inspiration throughout interior spaces and inside our minds. This piece is about going deep within our consciousness. Pm if interested in purchasing, inspired by the lovely @aura.chaya . 16 x20, unframed or framed, framed prints as well, payment plans accepted #brooklynart #artforsale #artistsoninstagram #color #light #inspiration #goingdeep

Get out of town; these women are too talented. #fainting. Focused on tone and value, as well as working quickly and instinctively. #figuredrawing #charcoal #artistsoninstagram #artclass #tone #value #light #brooklyn #release @hannahdreyfus @alyon4a @sylphinthecity @elishevs.m @annazb412