April 6 – May 18, 2014
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The Epsten Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition, Looking At After: Four Contemporary Artists Reflect on Legacy, featuring Tanya Hartman, Cima Katz, Misha Kligman and Benjamin Rosenthal.
Four artists, ranging in age from 29 – 64, invoke their Jewish heritage as they look back to the Holocaust as a seminal fact of their artistic identity. Through their art, they convey personal histories and perspectives reflecting upon history, language, society, and individual and collective loss.
Utilizing a range of media including painting, poetry, collage, printmaking, video and sound, their contemplative works coalesce to create a chorus of expressions attesting to the communicative, life-affirming power of creativity in the face of anguish and adversity. Through indirect, metaphorical narratives, these works prompt thoughts, conversations and questions regarding the way in which different generations consider the Holocaust, and how this pivotal period of history is conveyed and absorbed today.