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\n\tUnlike many Jewish actors of her generation, Lisa Edelstein never anglicized her name. \u201cSo, I\u2019ve always been publicly Jewish, and it\u2019s definitely had an impact on my career,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s made me not able to be other things, and frequently when I got a job, my character became Jewish.\u201d Some of her best-known roles are members of her tribe: House<\/em>\u2019s Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Relativity<\/em>\u2019s Rhonda Roth, The Kominsky Method<\/em>\u2019s Phoebe and, currently, Long Story Short<\/em>\u2019s matriarch Naomi Schwartz.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn her second career, as a burgeoning fine artist, her Jewishness can\u2019t help but inform the work, too. Since the pandemic, the self-taught painter has been producing watercolors which seek to interpret a trove of her family\u2019s snapshots of New Jersey domesticity. They provide a window into a vanishing twentieth-century American middle-class existence.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I started, I was exploring life in suburbia and the secrets we tell,\u201d explains Edelstein. \u201cBut because I grew up in an Ashkenazi Jewish household, there were yarmulkes and other [visual] markers which became political after Oct. 7. It made me want to lean into it and demand the right to exist as a Jew in the diaspora. There are other versions of Jewish life, but this is mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe works are now on view through Sept. 6 in a paired exhibit, A Palace in Time<\/em>, alongside her husband, the painter Robert Russell, at L.A.\u2019s Skirball Cultural Center. His pieces focus on Jewish ritual objects like Kiddush cups and yahrzeit candles. Her own capture fleeting moments of social togetherness.<\/p>\n

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\n\tEdelstein, 60, observes that the vintage nature of her photographic reference material is key. \u201cWe no longer have the same naivete about the camera,\u201d she says. \u201cWe know our photo paces. The images I\u2019m interested in are ones that have a narrative and that narrative is often unintentional.\u201d Edelstein adds, \u201cNow, we edit things out that we don\u2019t intend. It hampers how we express ourselves and what we leave behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Edelstein, her paintings provide an opportunity to connect with audiences which is distinct from her Hollywood endeavors. \u201cWhen you\u2019re painting you get to have an idea and produce it,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s incredibly satisfying for someone who\u2019s been in the entertainment business for so long, where there\u2019s so many people and so much money and so many things that can go wrong. I can start my story and finish it. There it is \u2014 it exists in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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