Jenni Lukac̆

Jenni Lukac̆ (born 1953) is an audio-visual artist best known for works focusing on the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors. She has been artist-in-residence at several Virginia schools.

Jenni Lukac̆
Born1953 (age 69–70)
NationalityAmerican
AwardsVirginia Prize for Sculpture
1990

Art

She graduated from Syracuse University, and Maryland Institute College of Art.

Lukac̆ won first prize in the 1990 Virginia Commission for the Arts for her "delicate, dark assemblages" titled "Shrines."[1] It is described as combining "the ironies of American assimilation with the loss of traditions and fundamental conflicts of faith."

She is perhaps best known for her multimedia installation Kaddish, based on photographs saved by Holocaust survivors, displayed in 1995 and 1996 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.[2] The show focused on artifacts preserved from before the war, to show "what was truly destroyed in the war - a human happiness and wholeness."[3]

Exhibitions

Lukac̆ had a show devoted to memory shrines entitled "Votive Shrine",[4] at the Arlington Arts Center in late 1990.[5][6]

In 1993, Lukac̆ was commissioned by the Miami Center for the Fine Arts to do a public piece entitle Port of Miami which juxtaposes photographs of Cuban émigrés arriving in Miami with contemporary images of Haitians and 1938 images of German Jewish refugees.

In 2016, Krannert Art Museum exhibited her work, Talitha Cumi (1992).[7]

References
  1. McGreevy, Linda (August 14, 1990). "Virginia Prizes: A savvy, worthy winners' exhibit at the PFAC". Port Folio Magazine: 43.
  2. "Artists + community : Jenni Lukač : Kaddish - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  3. Donnelly-Moan, Christine (December 1995). "Jenni Lukac: Kaddish, a multimedia installation". Washington Review: 17.
  4. Bloom, Lisa (1999). With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816632220.
  5. "GALLERIES". Washington Post. 1990-09-29. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  6. Dorsey, John. "Seven artists show works that react to society". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  7. Keim, Sarah (2 February 2016). "Evolving art forms at Krannert Art Museum's 2016 Spring season : Arts : Smile Politely". www.smilepolitely.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
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