Forward Article on Genesis Exhibition

What do Jewish, Christian and Muslim artists talk about when they talk about ‘Genesis’?

A groundbreaking exhibit tells the story of creation through multiple perspectives, with eye-opening results

Article in the Forward on the exhibition Genesis - The Beginning of Creativity by Simi Horwitz.

“It’s God as self-portrait,” the artist Yona Verwer told me as she explained Genesis, from Something to Nothing, an evocative but admittedly cryptic piece that she describes as “a ruptured metallic crust [which] opens like tectonic plates to provide a window to the grandeur and vast mystery of the cosmos.”

“Like God, an artist is a creator,” Verwer said. To judge by the large eye in the work’s center, an artist, like God, sees all.

From Something to Nothing is one of 14 pieces on display at the Jewish Theological Seminary in the complex, comprehensive, and unprecedented exhibition GENESIS, The Beginning of Creativity, which is taking place across three venues. Other artworks were previously exhibited at the Interchurch Center and Riverside Church. In this exhibit, it’s not anomalous for an artist to align herself with a divine force or, for that matter, view religious themes through a comic or feminist lens.”

Full article here: https://forward.com/culture/553966/creation-art-exhibit-nyc-genesis-jts/