Artist Jillian Crochet, whose work is featured in the exhibition Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves, joins guests Carmen Papalia, Whitney Mashburn, and Georgina Kleege as they discuss the relationship between art, touch, and care. Viewers are invited to experience everyday objects in their own space—a backpack, water bottle, or bookend, for example—through haptic and non-visual cues guided by the panel. Enjoy a conversation around alternative methods of experiencing and wayfinding in our environment through touch. This video includes ASL interpretation.
This program was originally presented via Zoom on December 15, 2022.
Header image description: Twenty amorphous, grey velvet sculptures of various sizes sit in a low pile against a white wall. They have slight variations in tone and texture, and resemble smooth grey rocks.
Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves, the twelfth iteration of The Dorothy Saxe Invitational at The CJM, presents works by thirty Bay Area–based contemporary artists reflecting on the Jewish concept of tikkun (Hebrew for “to repair”). In a moment of collective challenges and uncertainty, this exhibition re-examines the term tikkun as a phenomenon of care and interconnectedness that is grounded in personal action, environmental responsibility, and community, unfixed from its evolving meanings throughout history. Taken together, the works in this exhibition consider how the concept of tikkun can help us look critically both inward and outward, guide us through change, and build resilience for the ongoing work of repair.
Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell is a performer, composer, arranger, and essayist working in and around Yiddish language and culture. Formerly of the Bay Area, he lives in Atlanta with his husband of seven years, Rabbi Mike Rothbaum.
Header image: Jillian Crochet, Resting Rocks, 2022. Photo: Impart Photography.
Exhibition image: Terri Friedman, You don’t get to know (detail), 2021. Friedman Benda Gallery, A New Realism, curated by Glenn Adamson, June 2021. Photo: Josef Jacques.