JUDY MOONELIS
Memory Cone, Blue/White, 2005-06, 78”x46”x46”
JANINA PROJECT: CELESTIAL STRUCTURES
KEHILA KEDOSHA JANINA SYNAGOGUE AND MUSEUM
280 Broome (off Allen) NYC; Subways: B,D/ Grand; F,J,M,Z/ Delancey; Bus M-15/ Delancey
Museum Hours: Sundays 11am-4pm and by appointment.
www.kkjsm.org; contact: Museum Director Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos
kehila_kedosha_janina@netzero.net; 212-431-1619 or 631-367-3905
Synagogue Services: Saturdays at 9am and holidays
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Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum is a significant New York City historic landmark built in 1927 and the sole remaining Romaniote Greek Jewish congregation in the Western Hemisphere. A secular non-profit museum as well as a functioning synagogue it is one of only seven enduring original synagogues on the Lower East Side where there were several hundred a century ago.
Judy Moonelis, a New York City artist, has exhibited widely, in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Temple Gallery, Rome, Groot Foundation Exhibition Space, Chicago, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, and group exhibitions include the 9th International Frankfurt Triennial. Her work has been represented by John Elder Gallery, NYC and Rena Bransten, San Francisco, where she has had several solo exhibitions. Moonelis’s artist grants include two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships and the Virginia A. Groot Grant. Her work is represented in major public collections, including the Smithsonian Institutions’ Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC; Museum of Arts and Design, NYC; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, LA, CA. Important private collections include Frances Lewis, VA and Agnes Gund, NY. Her art has been a subject in numerous publications. She has lectured extensively at museums and universities, taught at Rhode Island School of Design, NYU and Hunter College. Her artist residencies include the Art Institute of Chicago, RISD and Cranbrook. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and MFA from New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University.
Project supported by Maxwell Becton College of Arts and Sciences, Fairleigh Dickinson University, College at Florham, where Moonelis currently teaches. www.fduarts.org Dedicated to the memory of Hy Genee, former Synagogue president and lay leader.