Tigist Yoseph Ron
May 8 – June 26, 2025
About This Exhibition
Ethiopian-born Israeli artist Tigist Yoseph Ron followed her 2024 residency at Surf Point Foundation in Cape Neddick, ME with a debut U.S. solo exhibition at the Fridman Gallery in New York, NY in early 2025. In partnership with the Fridman Gallery, MJM is pleased to exhibit the artist’s new paintings, which capture the complex emotional dissonance between Ron and her late father. The starting point for her work generally is a person she is close to, but as the process progresses, the specific identity of the person is slightly obscured in order to emphasize the movement and rhythm that are created.
About the Artist
Tigist Yoseph Ron was born in Gondar, Ethiopia and immigrated to Israel in 1984. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, she also studied drawing and painting at the Meyerhoff Center, Tel Aviv Museum of Art and at Hatahana Studio, Tel Aviv. Her work has been exhibited at Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Jaffa Museum, and the Fridman Gallery, New York, NY.
Thursday, May 8, 2024
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Mingle with artists and art lovers, enjoy wine and cheese with museum mavens and curious minds, and celebrate with us as we unveil our newest exhibitions!
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
On November 21, 1984, a seven-week clandestine operation to bring the “Bene Israel” — Ethiopian Jews — to Israel began. The unprecedented undertaking, code-named “Operation Moses,” was a three-way collaboration between the Mossad, the CIA and Sudanese State Security (SSS) to smuggle nearly 8,000 Bene Israel out of Ethiopia, where they faced hardship and persecution, in a massive airlift to Israel. Operation Moses turned out to be the beginning of large-scale, official Israeli efforts to facilitate Bene Israel aliyah that continued for decades thereafter.
Larry Rubinstein, Maine resident, ordained rabbi, and former Director of the Young Leadership Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal, was a key player in Operation Moses. Join us as he walks us through his riveting personal story against the backdrop of one of the most remarkable rescue missions in modern history.
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