Richard McBee is a painter of Biblical subject matter and writer on Jewish Art. From 2000 until 2014 he wrote about the Jewish Arts for the Jewish Press and continues to exhibit paintings, lecture and curate Jewish art exhibitions. He is a founding member of the Jewish Art Salon (jewishartsalon.org). His website (richardmcbee.com) exhibits over 300 of his artworks and 250 of his Jewish Art reviews.
“We are living in a Golden Age of religiously themed Jewish American Art…” (Matthew Baigell, Professor Emeritus Rutgers University, author of over 20 books on American and Jewish Art.)
We will explore the works of 15 contemporary Jewish artists who plumb their Jewish identity through midrash, feminism, Kabbalah, abstraction, Biblical narrative, book illustration, popular culture and comics.
