Lisa Edelstein
Artist and actor
Lisa Edelstein attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts before leaving to work as an actress, writer and filmmaker, eventually expanding her practice to painting. Her artwork has been exhibited with Anat Ebgi Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, and Gavlak Gallery and her art practice
has been profiled in Forbes Magazine. Edelstein’s practice is contemplative and reflective, intimate, personal and extremely rigorous. Through the lens of both the female and Jewish gaze, she draws you in, welcoming you into her family while also holding a mirror up to your own.
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Dance Me to the End of the World: A Jewish Diasporic Upbringing
Artist Lisa Edelstein’s family fled the violence and discrimination of Europe and found success in the new world. Her exhibit “Dance Me to the End of the World” at the Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles featured paintings deeply rooted in the Jewish diasporic experience of growing up within a multigenerational family with lush surroundings – designed interiors, new cars, dance lessons – signaling a flourishing made possible by this new start in America, while also firmly rejecting the deprivations of wartime Europe that hover in the recent past. This immigrant success story suffuses the paintings, from the proud stance of the couple in Day Trip to the beach vacation in Cruising. Read more here.