Joyce Ellen Weinstein
The story of Dinah from Genesis has many interpretations. In summary, when Jacob’s daughter Dinah visits a nearby town, the prince of the region befriends then rapes her. Dinah's brothers are outraged and through nefarious means kill all the men in the city. One interpretation says the prince “loves” her, in another he rapes her to ”spoil” her so she must marry him. Dinah the daughter of wealthy Jacob is a good catch but she is NEVER permitted to speak for herself. In this work Dinah is behind barriers, hidden away until she is married. She is “shut up.”
Joyce Ellen Weinstein is a New Yorker.
Fellowships: Vermont Studio Center; Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Israel; Social-Cultural Center, Prague; Blue Mountain Center, NY; Europos Parkas Museum, Lithuania; ChaNorthChashama, NY. She painted murals in Prague after the Soviet fall.
Some collections: National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC; HUC Bernard Heller Museum, NYC; FL Holocaust Museum; Gallerie-Junge KunstWerkStart, Vienna; Social-Cultural Center, Prague; Amnesty International; Einchen Americe, Princeton, NJ, Terezin Holocaust Museum, Czech Republic; Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, Lithuania; Derfner Judaica Museum NY; Arts and Military, DC. In: Fixing the World: Jewish American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Ori B. Soltes, New England U. Press, The Book as Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and more. Awarded Fulbright Senior Specialiste: and Scenic Design in Dance.
Member: Society of American Graphic Artists, Art Students League of NY, Contemporary Print Collective SC, Visual Arts Library, New London CN, Artist’s Equity. Education: MFA.
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