Summer/Fall 2008
Tamar will exhibit a new mixed-media
work on plexiglass with the New York
Society of Women Artists’ “Far
Out and Up Close” show at the
Broome Street Gallery:
September 9 - 28, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday,
September 13, 2008, 5-7:30pm
498 Broome Street
New York,
NY
10013
212.266.6085
Smith Parada Gallery
will exhibit Tamar’s personal, early
paintings of flowers and nature:
September 19th – October
10, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, September
19, 2008, 6-9pm
1054 31st
Street Suite 145
Washington,
D.C.,
20007
202.333.5575
Tamar’s new installation of
reclaimed materials, Exchange
Point, is featured in the group
exhibit,
Demo Eco M.O.,
curated by
Linda Weintraub
July 18 – August 18, 2008
910 Grand Street
Brooklyn,
NY
11211
718.782.7755
artSumer Gallery features several of
Tamar’s recent sculptures at
SCOPE Basel:
artSumer BOOTH # 303
June 3-8, 2008
Uferstrasse 80, CH-4057
Basel,
Switzerland
Look for Tamar’s work in
the group exhibit,
Tradition and Transformation: Art by Jewish
Women, curated by Beth
Shadur, opening at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago:
May 23 to June 19, 2008
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 25th, 4-7pm
685 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago,
IL
60622
312-738-0400
Spring 2008
Satyagraha
and
Symbiosis featured in the
current print and online publications of
artis, an influential
organization dedicated to supporting the
best of Israeli contemporary art and
culture. Visit their
website to find out
more about artis’ work, including
collaborative projects with Michal Rovner,
Guy Ben-Ner, and Sigalit Landau.
Tamar’s mural “Protest” on
view as part of
Satyagraha:
This New York Public Library
for the Performing Arts exhibit coincides
with the Metropolitan Opera's new staging of
Philip Glass' 1980 opera of the same name.
The exhibit includes historical photographs
and documents of Mahatma Gandhi's years in South Africa,
where he developed his philosophy of
non-violent protest as a powerful force for
change. Satyagraha features production
stills from the opera and a large-scale
mural by Tamar Hirschl, a
Croatian-Israeli-American artist and
activist.
March 17 - April 19, 2008
The
New York
Public Library for the Performing Arts
40
Lincoln
Center Plaza, NY 10023
The
Chelsea
Art Museum
screened filmmaker Robert DiMaio’s
Artist’s Archive documentaries,
including one about Tamar’s work, as part of
NYC’s Immigrant Heritage Week:
5th
Annual Immigrant Heritage Week
at the
Chelsea
Art Museum:
Robert DiMaio, Cui Fei, Tamar Hirschl, Nicky
Nodjoumi, Eung Ho Park, Piccirilli Brothers
April 14th-20th, 2008
Artists’ Q & A: Thursday, April 17th at
6pm
556 West 22nd Street,
New York, NY 10011
Visit their
website for additional
info and hours.
January 2008
Tamar’s solo exhibition, Cultural
Alarm, traveled to the Mizel
Museum
this month as the centerpiece of the
museum’s Winter/Spring season of exhibits,
entitled SYMBIOSIS,
illustrating the complex relationship
between human beings and the natural world.
Tamar conducted an
exclusive workshop on public murals for the
Denver Jewish Artists’ Guild on March 10,
2008.
SYMBIOSIS
January 31st- May 1st,
2008:
400 South Kearney Street,
Denver CO 80224
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 31st,
5-8 pm
Read the
press release here, or visit the
Mizel Museum’s website
Summer 2007
Tamar was commissioned to create
Corrigenda, one of many globes being
exhibited along Chicago’s lakefront from
June – September 2007, as part of Cool
Globes, a public art initiative
designed to increase awareness of, and
promote solutions to global warming.
Participating artists and personalities
include Jim Dine, Jaume Plensa, Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., Chris O’Donnell, U.S. Senator
Barack Obama and filmmaker Ken Burns. Learn
more about the project and see
Tamar’s globe here
The Film Society of
Lincoln Center accepted Tamar’s video,
Plot, for inclusion in
Scanners: The 2007 New York Video
Festival. The screening took place
on July 29th at the Walter Reade Theater, as
part of the 2007 Lincoln Center Festival.
Tamar took place in a Q & A with the artists
after the screening.
In conjunction with Sotheby’s artIs
2007: Israeli Contemporary Art In
New York, Tamar’s exhibit JERUSALEM / NEW
YORK, along with exhibits by artists Judy
Chicago and Rachel Papo, was on view through
July 7, 2007 at the HUC-JIR Museum.
Visit their
website
(leave this link active) or call
212.824.2205 for more information.
The Occidental Artist,
group exhibition at
NURTUREart Gallery, 910 Grand Street, in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
April 20 - July 2, 2007
Tamar’s mural, Deer Watch, was
selected as one of sixteen artists’ works
featured in an upcoming calendar produced by
the
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute:
Creating Art, Promoting Change: Works by
Jewish Women is a full-color
2007-08 weekly planner that presents sixteen
examples of international artist-activists
who have tested boundaries, broken barriers,
and created vibrant art.
Bridges of Memories,
a documentary about Tamar’s life, aired on
JLTV on June 25th, June 29th, and July 5th
Some of Tamar’s earlier works were shown as
part of Shtetl, Shoah, Land of Israel,
a historical exhibition curated by Sigmund
Balka, with works on loan from the Balka
Collection at HUC-JIR. The exhibit centered
on the work of photographer Roman Vishniac,
Aaron Morgan and myself. The show was on
view at the Krasdale Gallery in the Bronx
through July 16th, then traveled to White
Plains through September 17th.
September 2006 through January 2007
Tamar Hirschl, Cultural Alarm,
solo exhibition at the HUC-JIR Museum
September 19, 2006 – January 26, 2007
Hebrew Union College JIR
Museum
One West 4th
Street
(at Mercer)
New York, NY 10012
visit the
exhibition archive page
information and press
release here
