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In the summer of 2019, through the good offices of my friend and artist Krzysztof Bojarczuk, I participated in the “14th Annual International Workshop of Painters Symposium of Local Cultures” in Stary Sącz, Poland. Krzysztof and I have been friends for years, on e-mail and on Skype until we met in person in 2014 in Warsaw, Poland, when I delivered a lecture on my “Fourteen Stations/Hey Yud Dalet” suite at the Szydłowski Gallery. Krzysztof lives in Nowy Sącz, Galicja region, in my mother’s former hometown. Stary and Nowy Sącz are a few miles apart. I was honored to spend two creative, personally enriching weeks working with artists from France, Japan, Poland, Slovakia, and Spain

While our plane circled over Kraków before landing, I gazed upon the uniquely beautiful landscape below. “Pola/Fields” I and II, the two paintings I completed at the Symposium were based on the juxtaposition of newly observed images and my use of aerial imagery in my work.

Upon returning to California, I continued drawing the remembered landscapes, augmenting them by perusing Google Satellite Maps. The “Galicja” suite is the result of my hybrid visualizations. It is also an homage to my mother’s frequent recollections of the beauty of her native town and surroundings.

The “Wiśnia/Cherry” drawing was created at the request of the writer, historian, and friend, Ewa Andrzejewska, who works in the remembrance of the history of Nowy Sącz, including its now lost Jewish population. My drawing will be used in the form of a historical plaque mounted on a wall next to the bombed-out apartment building, now replaced with a new structure, where my mother once lived. I tried to see the local landscape through my mother’s eyes, I said Kaddish over the cemetery where my forebears rest and joined the living who understood.

Please scroll down and after viewing the works displayed on this webpage, you are invited to please visit the Exhibitions Gallery of my newest works.

Galicja I

Galicja II

Galicja III

Galicja IV

Galicja V

Galicja VI

Galicja VII

Galicja VIII

Galicja IX

Galicja X

Galicja XI

Galicja XII

Galicja XIII

Galicja XIV

Galicja XV

Galicja XVI

Galicja XVII

Galicja XVIII

Pola-Fields 1 and 2

Wisnia-Cherry Tree