Felice Pazner Malkin
Felice Pazner Malkin (Hebrew: פליס פזנר מלכין; born 1929) is an Israeli artist. She is on the faculty of the Society for Humanistic Judaism.[1]
Biography
Pazner Malkin was born in Philadelphia, US, and emigrated to Israel in 1949. Her first studio was in Jerusalem’s Bet Hakerem neighborhood, where she painted and illustrated books. In 1950 she married Yaakov Malkin. They spent a year in Paris where Felice studied at the Sorbonne and painted at a studio in Bellevue. Her son Irad Malkin was born in 1951 in the United States.
In 1953, Pazner Malkin had her first one-woman show in Tel Aviv. She subsequently exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum, and produced Israel's first artist-designed theater posters for the Habima, Cameri, and Matateh theater companies.
From 1956 to 1957, Pazner Malkin returned to Paris to study theatrical art and design with Jean-Marie Serreau, and to continue her studio work. The following year, the family moved to Haifa where they stayed until 1971, and where her daughter, Rabbi Sivan Maas, was born.
Pazner Malkin held several additional one-woman shows during these years as well as contributions to group shows. Her album of drawings inspired by the Song of Songs was published in the book Jonah Jones and the Song of Songs (Haifa, 1966).
Pazner Malkin was a founder-member of the Bet Rothschild and Bet Hagefen culture and community Centers in Haifa. She established, and directed, the Bet Rothschild Art School. In 1971 she moved to Jerusalem where she founded the Jewish-Arab Arts Center for Hebrew University's Buber Institute and remained its director until 1975.
Pazner Malkin's work has been shown in London, New York, Philadelphia, and as part of the James Michener Collection, in Austin, Texas. A series of her drawings on the theme of 'Art as Love' was published in three albums by Massada Press, and accompanied Yaakov Malkin's text in the book Art as Love (Massada, 1975). Pazner Malkin and Yaakov Malkin also co-edited the Massada Lexicon of the Arts (1975). Pazner Malkin's extensive series of paintings, 'Jerusalem People' (1975–1981), was exhibited in part at the American Cultural Center in Jerusalem, and published by the Bialik Institute. She contributed a series of drawings, 'Paris Vistas', to Yaakov Malkin's Vankaban (A cinematic novel) in 1993.
Pazner Malkin conceived, researched, and designed the documentary exhibition "Jewish Figurative Art: The First 3000 Years", which went on display in 1996 at the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in Detroit, Michigan.[2]