Gallery Art Exhibitions
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sunday during events and by appointment
All exhibitions and opening events are free and open to the public.
Spring Exhibitions
The Levis JCC Pottery Guild Exhibition & Sale
Beautiful and original utilitarian, sculptural and decorative works of ceramics created by the pottery students and instructor, Cynthia Zmetronak, will be on display and many for sale. Stop by and pick up a one of a kind piece to enjoy at home.
The Art of retired US Army Colonel Alfred Biegel
"Art has always been a salient part of my life". A colorful display of paintings in oils, acrylics and watercolors. His inspiration has come from his travels and life's experiences.
Exhibitions run March 6 - April 8, 2022
Exhibition Opening: Sunday, March 6, 1:00 - 3:00 pm at the Levis JCC Sandler Center
RSVP requested, call 561-558-2520
FREE and Open to the Public
Art Lectures
Israeli Contemporary Art Part 1 - Photography and Video with Ronnit Vasserman
Friday, April 1, 1:00 pm via Zoom
FREE for all virtual members, $10 for non-virtual members
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Israeli Contemporary Art Part 2 - Paintings and other Media with Ronnit Vasserman
Friday, May 13, 1:00 pm via Zoom
FREE for all virtual members, $10 for non-virtual members
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About Ronnit Vasserman: Ronnit Vasserman is the founder of Art Connect Group, a full service art consulting firm located in New York. After a successful career in investment banking she now dedicates her time to her favorite asset class, art. She has a degree in Fine Arts and Art History. In addition to helping clients acquire art she educates them on all the latest trends by organizing events throughout the year. These events include studio, museum, auction house and gallery visits and now … virtual lectures.
Summer Art History Lecture Series
FREE for all virtual members, $10 for non-virtual members
In honor of Yom Hashoah: Images of Contemporary Holocaust Representation
Thursday, April 28, 3:00 pm via Zoom
How has the Holocaust come to be commemorated in American and European modern monuments? Is abstraction the appropriate vocabulary to express our emotions or perhaps figurative works say more for a crime of stupendous proportions. Among the selections to be presented is the huge memorial in Berlin, Sol Lewitt's Minimalist black memorial in Hamburg, Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stones, The New England Holocaust memorial, Agam's rainbow-colored memorial in New Orleans and George Segal's figurative Holocaust in San Francisco.
The Beautiful and Ugly Sides of Degas: The Dreyfus Affair
Thursday, May 26, 3:00 pm via Zoom
In this presentation the beautiful paintings and sculptures by the Impressionist artist are shown and the story of his family's wealth and decline are explored. Degas came from a banking family and when their assets fell, he blamed the Rothschilds and other Jewish bankers. This coincided with the case against Dreyfus and Degas turned against his closest Jewish friends.
Miriam Schapiro, Leader of Feminist Art: Her Accomplishments and Her Jewish Identity
Thursday, June 30, 3:00 pm via Zoom
Miriam Schapiro, an artist and educator, promoted the importance of women in the world of visual arts, so much so that she came to be called the Johnny Appleseed of the field. Mimi, as she was called, along with Judy Chicago, founded the nation’s first Feminist Art Program at Cal Tech. Schapiro’s early paintings were marked by hard-edge abstraction which followed the current Minimalist movement. As a result of her work with women, she rebelled against this sterility and adopted materials and content that connected to female lives. Femmage was the term she coined in the mid-1970s to identify the collaging of materials such as rickrack, embroidery, handkerchiefs, lace and other textiles which were previously considered outside the realm of serious art making. Mimi created femmages relating to her Jewish heritage.
Roy Lichtenstein: His Art, His Life, and His Jewish Roots
Thursday, July 28, 3:00 pm via Zoom
Carol Salus knew Roy and he painted her portrait as a child, perhaps the only only portrait he ever painted. Salus explains some of his key Pop works from the early 60s and then shows his works inspired by the large brushstrokes of the Abstract Expressionists as well as his canvases and sculptures appropriated from Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse.
Anselm Kiefer: Painting as Personal Voyage
Thursday, August 25, 3:00 pm via Zoom
Anselm Kiefer, born in 1945, became well known on the international painting scene for his many works treating the Holocaust. His exploration began in the late 1960s at a time in his native Germany when his fellow countrymen hoped to forget. His art reveals his awareness of German history, literature, and art. Through the use of key landmarks, visual metaphors and techniques like a blow torch to convey incendiary effects on his canvases, he creates powerful reminders of the horrors. His work can be viewed as a working through of collective guilt for his fellow countrymen. I discuss the powerful role of art to help in trauma and mourning.
Salvador Dali: A Look at Some of His Jewish-Themed Works and His Pro-Fascist History
Thursday, September 29, 3:00 pm via Zoom
Dali is known for his works with their detailed, dream-like imagery. With the rise of anti-Semitism in the 1930s, the artist painted several works which show interest in Hitler. He was exiled from the Surrealists for his flirtation with Nazism. Decades later, he was selected by the State of Israel to create works for its twentieth anniversary. His works for this celebratory event are striking in their treatment of Biblical and contemporary history. Also, Dali and Freud admired one another and his meeting with this intellectual giant will also be discussed. This talk raises the question of how to evaluate his radiant Jewish-themed works and his feelings about Jews. Can we separate the man from the art?
