Elke Reva Sudin is an American Artist and Illustrator. In 2010, her "Hipsters and Hassids" painting series premiered in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, aiming to calm tensions between Hassidic Jewish and Hipster

Hipster (contemporary subculture)

Hipsters are a subculture of young, recently settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers with musical interests mainly in alternative rock that appeared in the 1990s...

 culture.

Biography

Elke Reva Sudin was born in Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield is the most populous city in Western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers; the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern...

. In 2005 she attended Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...

 where she earned a B.F.A in Illustration

Illustration

An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...

. After graduating in 2009 she pursued a fine art career and soon gained recognition for her portraits of World Boxing Association

World Boxing Association

The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title at the professional level. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...

 super welterweight champion boxer Yuri Foreman

Yuri Foreman

Yuri Foreman is a Belarusian-born Israeli-American professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association super welterweight champion...

 and her “Hipsters and Hassids” painting series. These boxing portraits were shown at the DUMBO

Dumbo

Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures.The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, Dumbo is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a...

 “Art Under the Bridge Festival” in 2009 at the world famous boxing establishment, Gleason's Gym

Gleason's Gym

Gleason's is a boxing gym located on the Brooklyn waterfront. Since 1937, when the gym was founded in the Bronx, boxers with their eyes on Olympic glory or a shot at the title have been training at Gleason's. Fighters who trained at the gym include Jake LaMotta, Roberto Durán, Benny "Kid" Paret,...

. Sudin's “Hipsters and Hassids” series depicts similarities between the disparate cultural groups in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint to the north, Bedford-Stuyvesant to the south, Bushwick to the east and the East River to the west. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 1. The neighborhood is served by the NYPD's 90th ...

 best known for feuding over the Bedford Avenue bike lanes.

Sudin lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband Saul Sudin.

Notable Exhibitions

• 2010 Generation D: Indentities, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY - Curator

• 2010 Warehouse Art Rave & Fashion Show, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY - Curator

• 2010 Jewish Diversity, Gallery Bar, New York, NY - Curator

• 2010 Hipsters and Hassids, Le Salon d'Art, New York, NY – Solo show

• 2010 Color: Correct, Eden Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY

• 2010 Hipsters and Hassids, Aish Hatorah
  Aish HaTorah
  Aish HaTorah is a Jewish Orthodox organization and yeshiva. Aish HaTorah is actively pro-Israel and encourages Jewish people to visit Israel and connect to the land and its history. Some consider the organisation to reflect a more Religious Zionist philosophy in its attachment to Israel, promoting...
  
  , New York, NY - Solo show

• 2010 Hipsters and Hassids, The Workmen's Circle, New York, NY - Solo show

• 2010 Transcending History: Moving Beyond Slavery and the Holocaust, Vivant Art Collection, Philadelphia, PA

• 2009 A Book About Death, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, NY, NY; Otis College of Art and Design
  Otis College of Art and Design
  Otis College of Art and Design is an art and design college in Los Angeles, California.The school's programs, accredited by WASC and National Association of Schools of Art and Design, include four-year BFA degrees in illustration, fine arts, graphic design, architecture, landscape design, interior...
  
  , LA, CA; The Mobius Artists Group
  Mobius Artists Group
  The Mobius Artists Group is an interdisciplinary group of artists, founded in 1977 by Marilyn Arsem in Boston, Massachusetts as Mobius Theater. It is known for incorporating a wide range of visual, performing and media arts into live performance, video, installation and intermedia works...
  
   Gallery, Boston, MA

• 2009 Gleason's Gym Boxing Exhibition, DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Museum Collections

• 2009 A Book About Death, The Museum of Modern Art
  Museum of Modern Art
  The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
  
  , NY, NY compiled by Deven Marriner

Articles

• Rubenstein, Michael. "Festival Shines Spotlight on Sephardic Culture" The Wall Street Journal, p.A26 (6 December 2010)

• Kadinsky, Sergey. "Shemspeed Promotes Young Artists, Young Jewish Culture" The Jewish Star (9 December 2010)

• Galloway, Jordan. "Williamsburg War Spills Onto Canvas" NY Press (13 February 2010)

• Merkin, Jenny. "‘Hipsters and Hasids’ Finds Parallels Between Two Worlds" Tablet Magazine (20 April 2010)

• Soltes, Ori Z. "Slavery and the Holocaust" Zeek (1 March 2010)

• Weichselbaum, Lehman. "Painting Bridges in Williamsburg" The Jewish Week, p. 3 (12 February 2010)

External links

• "The Art of Elke Reva Sudin" Elke Reva Sudin's official website
• "JewishArtNow.com" Contemporary Jewish Art & Design news and resource site
• "SUDINmagazine" Contemporary Jewish Art & Design print publication