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.

 

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#25-Arie Galles with Metronome-June 29-2011

 

 

 

 

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1-Arie Galles - “Galicja I” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

2 - Arie Galles - “Galicja II” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

3 - Arie Galles - “Galicja III” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

4 - Arie Galles - “Galicja IV” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

Galicja I

Galicja II

Galicja III

Galicja IV

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5 - Arie Galles - “Galicja V” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

6 - Arie Galles - “Galicja VI” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

7 - Arie Galles - “Galicja VII” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

8 - Arie Galles - “Galicja VIII” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

Galicja V

Galicja VI

Galicja VII

Galicja VIII

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9 - Arie Galles - “Galicja IX” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

10 - Arie Galles - “Galicja X” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

11 - Arie Galles - “Galicja XI” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

12 - Arie Galles - “Galicja XII” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

Galicja IX

Galicja X

Galicja XI

Galicja XII

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13 - Arie Galles - “Galicja XIII” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

14 - Arie Galles - “Galicja XIV” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

15 - Arie Galles - “Galicja XV” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

16 - Arie Galles - “Galicja XVI” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

Galicja XIII

Galicja XIV

Galicja XV

Galicja XVI

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17 - Arie Galles - “Galicja XVII” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

18 - Arie Galles - “Galicja XVIII” 2019 - 7” x 12” - Koh-I-Noor Progresso pencils on Arches

19 - Arie Galles - “Pola-Fields” 1 and 2 - 2019 -Approximately 36” x 42” each - Acrylic on Canvas - Collection of the town of Stary Sącz - Poland

20 - Arie Galles - “Wisnia-Cherry Tree” - 2019 - 14” x 11” - Design for wall plaque in Nowy Sącz - Poland

Galicja XVII

Galicja XVIII

Pola-Fields 1 and 2

Wisnia-Cherry Tree

       
 
   
 

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