WARSAW GHETTO STARVATION (C)
Acrylic and graphite, 18x24", 2025
This painting is the third WARSAW GHETTO STARVATION (C) of three paintings of this subject (WARSAW GHETTO STARVATION (A) and WARSAW GHETTO STARVATION (B). Every painting is a learning experience for me, and with this series, I continued to experiment with color and its effect on the subject.
Are these starving children even seen, or are they invisible, or made invisible? I costumed STARVATION (A) as a ghost, and STARVATION (C) in the bright red cassock of the roman catholic church, quite passive and collaborative with the nazis. Did the church see the children, or were they ghosts?
Our boy here is eating a moldy crust found in the gutter. Alone, abandoned, shaking with fever, afraid. A million miles away from everyday holiness replaced with everyday survival. One of the thousands of homeless children who died of starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto.
-In the Holocaust Art Research Center permanent collection of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Jerusalem.
-Solo exhibit Gross-Rosen Muzeum, Rogoznica, Poland.
-Winner of the 2025 Karen Walenka Memorial Exhibit of the American Guild of Judaic Art.
This painting is the third WARSAW GHETTO STARVATION (C) of three paintings of this subject (WARSAW GHETTO STARVATION (A) and WARSAW GHETTO STARVATION (B). Every painting is a learning experience for me, and with this series, I continued to experiment with color and its effect on the subject.
Are these starving children even seen, or are they invisible, or made invisible? I costumed STARVATION (A) as a ghost, and STARVATION (C) in the bright red cassock of the roman catholic church, quite passive and collaborative with the nazis. Did the church see the children, or were they ghosts?
Our boy here is eating a moldy crust found in the gutter. Alone, abandoned, shaking with fever, afraid. A million miles away from everyday holiness replaced with everyday survival. One of the thousands of homeless children who died of starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto.
-In the Holocaust Art Research Center permanent collection of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Jerusalem.
-Solo exhibit Gross-Rosen Muzeum, Rogoznica, Poland.
-Winner of the 2025 Karen Walenka Memorial Exhibit of the American Guild of Judaic Art.