On View through November 23, 2009
Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, Korn Gallery
and Drew University Library, Main Lobby
The power of Samuel Bak to engage not only our minds but also our spirits comes from the poignancy of his artistic language. Such artistry involves not only the primary elements of space, light, color and composition, but also the artist's engagement with objects, symbols, narratives, and telling oppositions such as nature and culture.
Bak, a child prodigy, whose first exhibition was held in the Vilna ghetto at age nine, and whose paintings now span seven decades, weaves together personal and cultural history, past and present, to articulate an iconography of his experience of the Holocaust and his perceptions of a world that lives in the shadow of continuing genocidal acts.
Samuel Bak is an internationally acclaimed painter who lives in Weston, Massachusetts.
Curators: Sara Lynn Henry and Gabriele Hiltl-Cohen
Opening Reception: October 9, 5:30-8:00 pm
Center for Holocaust/Genocide Studies
November 12, 10:00 am-3:00 pm, Dorothy Young Center for the Arts
Extended Exhibition in the University Library Atrium
In Collaboration with Wabash College and De Pauw University
Co-sponsored with support from Drew University Art Department; Drew University Art History Department; Drew Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study; Drew Center on Religion, Culture, and Conflict; Drew Hillel; Drew University Library; Religion and the Arts at Drew; and Drew Theological School
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