Elke Reva Sudin
| Elke Reva Sudin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Elke Engelson 1987 (age 29–30) Springfield, MA |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Pratt Institute (BFA, 2009) |
| Known for | Painting, illustration |
| Spouse(s) | Saul Sudin (m. 2007) |
| Website | elkerevasudin.com |
Elke Reva Sudin (born 1987) is an American painter, illustrator and lecturer. In 2010, her Hipsters and Hassids painting series premiered in New York City, comparing and contrasting the Hasidic Jewish and hipster Brooklyn cultures. She founded NY Drawing Booth in 2014, and is also a founder of Jewish Art Now.
Sudin was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Longmeadow. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, earning a BFA in Illustration in 2009.
Sudin's 2010 Hipsters and Hassids series depicts the parallel lives of the disparate cultural groups in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, known for feuding over a variety of issues, such as whether or not there should be bicycle lanes down the Satmar stretch of Bedford Avenue. Sudin's colorful paintings examine the similarities and differences of north Williamsburg's hipster residents with south Williamsburg's Satmar Hasidic Jews, such as 2 am, with side-by-side paintings showing a group of partying community members, one of hipsters, one of Hasids. To create the series, Sudin interviewed neighborhood residents in Williamsburg and made a drawing of them in her sketchbook with a felt-tip pen. She would later make acrylic paintings based on the drawings. The series was originally produced as part of her senior BFA thesis at the Pratt Institute. It premiered in 2010 in New York City.
In the 2012 documentary Punk Jews (dir. Jesse Zook Mann), Sudin is profiled and presents paintings from Hipsters and Hassids.
In 2014, Sudin founded NY Drawing Booth, an event service in which a team of artists circulate among the guests and offer to create quick, realistic hand-drawn digital portraits using an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. The portraits can be emailed, live-tweeted, projected at the event, or printed on-site and made available on archival-quality paper as 4" by 6" portraits. Past clients include L'Oreal, IBM, Disney, ESPN, Marriott Hotels, Bain Capital, Godiva and InStyle magazine.
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