Kass has written that the alluring entertainer Barbara Streisand “changed my life as a Jewish girl growing up in suburban New York in the ’60s. Her sense of herself, her ethnicity, talent, glamor and her difference affirmed my own ambitions and identity.”

Kass makes use of pop cultural imagery to iconic effect. Like artist Andy Warhol (whose portraits of the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy she references in her Jewish Jackie series), Kass collected photographs of iconic, personally significant figures from mainstream media and used a repetitive printing technique to reproduce them.

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