from Russian Ghettos to 1930's Hollywood: "Beyond the Pale" Exhibition at TSL Hudson

Jenny Snider Presents: Sergei Eistenstein’s An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 2013-17Acrylic, ink, water color, glitter, gold powder, leaves, canvas, cord, paper maché, Tylenol w/codeine, wood, and paper, on linen66" x 66"

April 18–May 17 | Hudson, NY | Free

Painter Jenny Snider opens "Beyond the Pale" at Time & Space Limited in Hudson on April 18, with a reception from 1 to 3pm. The show is the culmination of two decades of studio work, pulling together three interlocking threads: the world of Soviet Constructivism, the fate of its artists under Stalin, and the Pale of Settlement—the band of territory in the Russian Empire where Jews were permitted to live, from 1791 to 1917, and where Snider's own grandparents were born. Most of that land is now Ukraine.

The project began as an homage to filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and grew to encompass a larger cast of figures from the period, including artist Liubov Popova, theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Meyerhold's wife, actress Zinaida Reich. A more recent strand traces Eisenstein's time in Hollywood in the early 1930s, where he drafted an unproduced adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy" for Paramount Pictures. Snider has been working with images from that treatment since 2020.

Snider is best known for her black-and-white dance drawings, painted wooden taxis, and large-scale Soviet history paintings. She has lectured at the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale, and the University of Vermont, and spent 2011–2012 in Rome as a recipient of the Rome Prize in Visual Art from the American Academy.

Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia St., Hudson, NY. More info and exhibition details at timeandspace.org.