“Rabbi Motzkin’s work is magical, spiritual, and inspiring”
— Belinda Colón, Gallery Director and Curator
Spring Street Gallery is honored to present: “Between Heaven and Earth, works by Rabbi Linda Motzkin on view November 13 through December 19, 2022.
Rabbi Motzkin says: “My artwork combines calligraphed excerpts from the 3,000-year-old body of Jewish literature with torn, scarred or otherwise blemished pieces of handmade deerskin parchment. All my work is informed by the tension between living as a flawed human being in this less-than-perfect world, while striving for something higher and better which may be unattainable. I live and work in the space between heaven and earth.”
Rabbi Motzkin, a Torah scribe, author, parchment maker, and an artist is to be celebrated on her solo exhibition opening. The opening and gathering is also a celebration of Rabbi Motzkin’s retirement from Temple Sinai in downtown Saratoga Springs where she and her husband Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein have served as co-rabbis together since 1986. Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein will be retiring this year as well.
