Elke Reva Sudin is a visual artist who draws inspiration from urban culture and her Jewish heritage. She founded Jewish Art Now with the aim to redefine 21st century art for the Jewish community, and received critical acclaim for her “Hipsters and Hassids” painting series. The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York has collected her work, and she has curated art exhibitions at the Flomenhaft Gallery, Gallery Bar, and Industry City. She was featured in publications such as the New York Press, Jewish Week, ZEEK, and Tablet Magazine. Sudin is an engaging and magnetic public speaker, and has presented at the Jewish Art Salon, Limmud FSU, and Tribefest in Las Vegas. 

Sudin received a BFA in Illustration from Pratt Institute in New York, and serves on the board of the Jewish Alumni Association of Pratt Institute, as well as the board of the Jewish Art Salon and Art Kibbutz New York. 

In 2011, Sudin was named one of the Jewish Week's “36 Under 36” young Jewish innovators. Sudin lives with her filmmaker husband Saul in Brooklyn, New York.

My paintings are representations of man-made environments in a world designed by a higher power. Just as G-d created us in Its own image, so too I seek to be a filter translating the architecture and people around me into my own scenarios, to unify that which is seemingly broken.

My works uses strong horizontal and vertical architectural structures to draw a path of communication between our mundane humanistic level, and in the higher realm of the divine. The linear qualities are like electrical wiring that can access what is lofty and above our comprehension in the higher worlds. By giving an access point to the higher realms of consciousness, my work gives a perception to the divine starting from a place we can understand.

Using fast drying mediums including acrylic and ink, I create active compositions utilizing gestural line to evoke life, motion, vibrancy and character in both large forms and minuscule details.