The Children of Abraham exhibit will seek to explore how certain Muslim and Jewish artists have turned toward abstraction and non-representation as a universal spiritual language—one that transcends the visible and touches the infinite. Our intention is not only to trace parallels between Jewish and Islamic abstraction, but to reveal how, across time and tradition, artists have sought transcendence through rhythm, geometry, color, and silence—languages that point toward the ineffable, point to a certain commonality in the fundamental human experience that transcends most differences and most forms of particularism. The exhibit is being curated by Dr. Ori Z. Soltes of Washington D.C. and Mel Brown of Boston MA Giv’at Ram Campus of the Hebrew University
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