SHTEYNSHLEYGER OPENING SUNDAY JAN 3 2010

DECEMBER 31, 2009

ANNA SHTEYNSHLEYGER OPENING SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 2010     Anna Shteynshleyger, "Masha" 2004 - 2009 pigment print, 24 x 29.9 inches, courtesy of the artist. Please join The Renaissance Society for an opening reception for Anna Shteynshleyger, Sunday January 3, 2010, from 4:00 to 7:00pm.  There will be a talk with the artist in Kent Hall room 120, from 5:00 to 6:00pm. Chicago-based artist Shteynshleyger belongs to a generation of photographers whose work is notable for its formal beauty and technical execution. Twenty-three works poignantly document Shteynshleyger's life over the past several years.  During this period Shteynshleyger renegotiated her relationship to Orthodox Judaism, which she began to practice at the age of 16 after moving to the United States from Moscow where she was born. Too personal to qualify as documentary of the Orthodox Jewish community, Shteynshleyger's work spans a variety of genres -- portraits, still-life, landscape, and interiors. The images display a sensitivity of their subjects that is as questioning as it is knowing.

RELATED EVENTS LECTURE Sunday, January 10, 2010, 2:00pm Margaret Olin Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Divinity School Jewish Space As a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Divinity School, Margaret Olin's current research concerns documentary media, Jewish visual culture, and theories of witnessing and commemoration. This talk is part of a project called "Jewish Space," which examines sites identified as "Jewish," or in which Jews have a stake, as they mingle with others in imagination or reality. This event will take place in Swift Hall room 106.1025 East 58th Street (on the Main Quadrangle of the University, directly east of Cobb Hall). FREE LECTURE Sunday, January 24, 2010, 2:00pm Jan Schwarz Senior Lecturer in Yiddish University of Chicago Porfolk: Portraits of Married Couples in Yiddish Literature Schwarz is a professor of Yiddish culture. He is currently the Barbara and Richard Rosenburg Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, researching "Yiddish Literary Testimonies: Mordechai Strigler, Leib Rokhman, Eliezer Wiesel."  This event will take place in Cobb Hall room 409, just down the corridor from the gallery. FREE LECTURE Sunday, February 7, 2010, 2:00 pm Leora Auslander Professor of Modern European Social History, member of the Committee on Jewish Studies and the Center for Gender Studies University of Chicago Sexy Challahs, Pregnant Shabbat Candlesticks, and Women with Sidelocks: Anna Shteynshleyger's Embodied Judaism Currently professor of Modern European Social History, Auslander is the author of Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France (1998), and Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life and Politics in England, North America, and France (2009). She is a member of the Committee on Jewish Studies and the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago. Her current research is for an upcoming book titled Strangers at Home: Jewish Parisians and Berliners in the Twentieth Century. This event will take place in Swift Hall room 106. 1025 East 58th Street (on the Main Quadrangle of the University, directly east of Cobb Hall). FREE READING Sunday, February 14, 2010, 2:00pm Charles Bernstein Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of Pennsylvania Highly esteemed poet, professor, and literary scholar Charles Bernstein will do a reading dedicated to his daughter Emma. The reading coincides with the release of All the Whiskey in Heaven, a thirty-year anthology. In addition, the reading will celebrate the recent release of Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture, a collection of essays in which poets and critics, Bernstein among them, address the question of what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined as ‘secular', and whether or not there is a Jewish component or dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general. The reading will be followed by a discussion and reception. This event will take place in Swift Hall room 106. 1025 East 58th Street (on the Main Quadrangle of the University, directly east of Cobb Hall). FREE    SPONSORS This exhibition is made possible through generous support from the Harper Court Arts Council.   SUPPORT THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY Get involved, become a member.  By becoming a member, you are joining a vital and ongoing tradition of forward-thinking presentations and innovation in art. JOIN HERE.   LOCATION AND HOURS The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Cobb Hall, 4th floor 5811 South Ellis Avenue Chicago IL 60637 hours: Tuesday to Friday 10:00am to 5:00pm Saturday and Sunday noon to 5:00pm closed Mondays ALL EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS ARE FREE

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