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Jewish Folktales Retold Artist Portrait: Inez Storer

Inez Storer (b. 1933) is a painter, born in Santa Monica and has been based for many years in Inverness, CA. She was a long-time professor at the San Francisco Art Institute, from which she retired. Her work usually has an aspect of implied history, both through the use of the figure as well as objects that are a part of her own collections—the resulting work is a combination of autobiographical and fictional references. Her work has been shown at the Monterey Museum of Art; the Reno Museum of Art; the National Museum of Jewish History, Philadelphia; and the Lannan Museum in Fort Worth, TX. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1999 and the prestigious appointment as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome 1996 and 1997.

Presented in conjunction with Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid, on view Sep 28, 2017–Jan 28, 2018 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.

Uploaded Aug 28, 2017.

about the exhibition

Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid presents newly commissioned works of art by sixteen contemporary artists in response to a selection of tales from Jewish folklore. Acting as modern maggids—storytellers, transmitters of knowledge, secrets revealers—they explore the many facets of these stories’ characters, themes, and metaphors. Artists include: Michael Arcega, Julia Goodman, Dina Goldstein, Andy Diaz Hope and Laurel Roth Hope, Vera Iliatova, David Kasprzak, Mads Lynnerup, Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, Mike Rothfeld, Tracey Snelling, Chris Sollars, M. Louise Stanley, Inez Storer, and Young Suh and Katie Peterson.

supporters

Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.

Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Lead sponsorship is provided by the Koret Foundation. Major support is provided by Gaia Fund, Wendy Kesser, and Dorothy R. Saxe. Sponsorship is provided in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum thanks The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for its major support of The Museum’s exhibition program.