Painting

Artist Spotlight: Hannah Lupton Reinhard

A selection of recent paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Hannah Lupton Reinhard. Having grown up in a predominantly Jewish community with various assumed and normalized social expectations, Reinhard’s work can be seen as an interrogation of her relationship to her own lineage — an attempt to grapple with things like what it means to be a ‘nice Jewish girl’ or feelings of being simultaneously ‘too Jewish’ and ‘not Jewish enough.’ As she states:

“Judaism is a performative religion that relies deeply on the generational handing-down (L’dor v’dor) of traditions throughout a community. It is a religion of story-telling that has maintained itself through the repetition of narratives, and the rituals that come with them. It is a culture that relies on humor to cope with old histories, and create new ones.

Through the depiction and repetition of ritual objects, I want my paintings to over-perform and exaggerate Jewish rituals, while simultaneously hiding their Jewishness, burying it in color, pattern, ornament, and femininity. And through an over-performance of femininity–hair, lips, eyes, hands–I want to teeter between the lines of ugliness and beauty, the real and the unreal, memory and photography, heavy-handedness and delicacy. I seek to depict the Jewish woman as mischievous yet nurturing, desirable yet frightening, beautiful yet strange, almost like a siren or fairy or other-worldly creature… I want to force the viewer to dig past the initial sort of bait, the shiny finish, and find the complicated, hard-to-articulate feelings.”

Check out more images below!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hannah Lupton Reinhard’s Website

Hannah Lupton Reinhard on Instagram

Booooooom Shop: Tomorrow’s Talent 4

Featuring the work of 60 fine artists and illustrators, tomorrow’s Talent 4 is now officially available in our shop!

Learn more

2024 Booooooom Photo Awards

Calling all photographers! The Booooooom Photo Awards are back and officially open for submissions!

Learn more

Related Articles

Secret Email Club

If you’re not a member of our Secret Email Club you’ve been missing out on a whole lot of stuff that we don’t post on Booooooom!