リサ・エデルシュタインさんのインスタグラム写真 - (リサ・エデルシュタインInstagram)「Excerpts from @angelenomagazine ! — By @lauraecksteinjones | November 16, 2023 | People Art People Feature The Den, a recent show at Anat Ebgi’s Wilshire Blvd. gallery showcased Edelstein’s latest pieces, watercolor and pencil creations based on old photographs and stills from family movies. Although the works feature Edelstein’s own family, “you don’t need to know the people in the paintings, because you recognize them as human beings,” she says. “I love discovering details in the grainy old photos and film stills, discovering secret cigarettes, gestures, glares… They aren’t necessarily the images one would have put in a photo album; they’re the mistakes, the asides, the caught moments that are so much more honest to me.” Something particularly timely about Edelstein’s artwork is its representation of Jewishness. “We are a people that is both extremely visible as a minority group and yet simultaneously dismissed as being one,” she explains. “And right now, especially right now, it feels radical to put a yarmulke in a painting. But it’s important. Representation helps us recognize each other, humanize each other, and remember we are all in it together.” Edelstein’s work is currently on view in Rebuilding Bridges, a group show curated by @megsmegsmegs Megan Steinman, founding director of @theundergroundmuseum, at @spagobh through Feb. 1. She also stars in a recently released @pbs series called @littlebird.series and will appear in a SAG-AFTRA interim-agreement-approved indie film that’s currently in post-production. “I’m incredibly grateful that I can do things that transport me out of the normal stresses of everyday life,” Edelstein shares. “I love to work, I love to hyper-focus, I love to dive into my imagination. What a blessing it is, that, as an adult, all these things could be parts of how I make a living and move through the world.”」11月22日 19時46分