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Mike Rothfeld (b. 1981, Katonah, NY; lives and works in Oakland, CA) builds lo-fi, almost-clumsy sculptures that recall set pieces and props for 1970s science fiction films, referring to an era of visual effects that required viewers to suspend their disbelief to be able to imagine an alternative reality. His work has been shown at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and the Institute for Contemporary Art, London. His writing has appeared in several issues of Art Practical and other catalog essays. He received his MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
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.
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.
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.