✡️ Celebrating #Jewtude today! ✡️ #ShanaTova and #YomTov from Gavlak on #YomKippur! In her 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘦 series, artist #DeborahKass takes Warhol’s paintings that repeat an image of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in profile and replaces her with actress and singer Barbra Streisand. While growing up as a Jewish American girl, Kass noticed that people on television and in movies looked different than she did. Streisand, also Jewish, was someone with whom she could identify: “I had never seen a movie star that looked like Barbra, which is to say that looked like me.” Kass’s prime player in “The Warhol Project” is #BarbraStreisand—she of the proud, unrevised Jewish nose. As a child, Kass had admired the pop star, against the grain of her assimilationist upbringing; she was wild for Streisand’s Jewish glamour, for her rebel beauty and big voice, and decided to remedy her marked absence in Warhol’s pantheon. Kass began on a search for how Jewishness fits into the idea of multiculturalism; she was thinking about Jewishness within the context of post-modernism and identity politics. She told the Jewish Museum: "The children of my contemporaries went to college literally learning the intellectual framework being built back then, whereas people in my generation went to school learning the white male cannon: period. In literature and in art. My work addresses this generational intellectual dissonance." At this point, Kass’ work started making clearer conceptual statements about feminism and “Jewishness.” By focusing on being Jewish — as opposed to Judaism as a religion — Kass brings an often-overlooked group into the foreground without religious undertones. Her work shows the cultural stigmas attached to the group. Known for her mixed media, genre-blending interplay on visuals and language, Kass is not afraid of pointed social commentary. This bravery makes her work compelling, relevant, and uniquely urgent as a pioneer in the field of intersectionality. “I wish we all had more Jewtude!” — @debkass Deborah Kass 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘦, 1992 Xerox print, on Strathmore paper 16 x 20.5 inches (40.6 x 52.1 cm) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFsZ55zFJdS/?igshid=1q0ho34fk8xw3