Generations Art Reception and Exhibit Gaelen Gallery West Keselman b Ohring b Schwarz b Wertman Exhibit on view: September 17 - November, 2017 Opening reception: September 17 at 2:00 pm
The Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest is pleased to present Generations, an art exhibit consisting of paintings, sculpture, conceptual art and photographs created by artists Hanna Keselman; Milton Ohring; Joanie Schwarz and Lev Gal Wertman. The opening reception will take place on September 17 at 2 pm in the Gaelen Gallery West, 901 Route 10, Whippany, New Jersey. There is no charge for admission and all are welcome. RSVPs are appreciated. Keselman who resides in Springfield, and Ohring, a resident of Teaneck are child survivors of the Holocaust. Wertman, who lives in Randolph, is the son of a survivor who lost dozens of family members during the Shoah. Schwarz lost many extended family members in Theresienstadt, Treblinka and Auschwitz. A resident of Westfield, she was moved to commemorate the Holocaust through photographs after a recent visit to the death camps. All artists have exhibited their work in many venues. Free Tours led by Trained Docents: Group and School Tours, led by trained docents, will be available. To RSVP or to register: holocaustcouncil@jfedgmw.org or (973) 929-3194 Generations Art Reception and Exhibit Keselman b Ohring b Schwarz b Wertman Exhibit on view: September 17 - November, 2017 Opening reception: September 17 at 2:00 pm Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ (973) 929-3066 fax (973) 884-9316 Gaelen Gallery West at the Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus 901 Route 10 East Whippany, NJ 07981 Gallery Hours Monday-Thursday: 9:00am-6:00pm Friday: 9:00am-4:00pm Saturday: CLOSED Sunday* Cover photo: sculpture by Milton Ohring. Warsaw Ghetto Vortex, 2017, stainless steel, 30x24x24 *Please call 973-929-3167 the Friday before. Due to security procedures, the doors will only be open when the front desk is manned. If there are no events scheduled on this day, the doors will be locked.
Hanna Keselman Painting from life has a long and illustrious tradition, which is rooted in the past. There has to be an understanding of the profound change that modernism has influenced all painting, whether abstract or representational. My objective is not to be an illustrator or decorator but to use modernism as a departure point to reinforce the present. My aim is to enjoy the process, which is the most rewarding part of my work. In spite of having spent my childhood running and hiding during the Holocaust, I do not paint dark subjects but try to show the world as it should be, bright and beautiful. One Person shows include: The Palmer Museum; Tannery Brook Collections, Woodstock, NY; B nai Jeshurun, Short Hills, NJ; Christina Geis Art Gallery at Georgian Court College. Selected Group shows include: The Morris Museum; Korn Gallery, Drew University; County College of Morris; Gaelen Gallery Invitational; Gaelen Juried Art Show; Macculloch Hall Historical Museum. Beet, 2017, Oil on canvas, 30x24
Bischheim Cloth, 2017, Oil on canvas, 30x30 Deco Lamp, 2017, Oil on canvas, 30x24
Red Glass, 2017, Oil on canvas, 30x24 Still Life, 2017, Oil on canvas, 30x24
Milton Ohring Milton graduated from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and the Performing Arts in New York City, as an art major. He then studied science and engineering obtaining a doctorate in Metallurgical Engineering from Columbia Universty. This was followed by an academic career as Professor of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the Stevens Institute Of Technology, in Hoboken, NJ. In Dec. 2005/ Jan. 2006 he mounted a one-man show of his sculpture at the Metrowest JCC in Whippany, NJ. Capitalizing on an extensive knowledge of materials, their properties, and the way they are shaped and formed, he is self-taught in sculpture. More recently he had a one man show in the Samuel C. Williams Library at Stevens Institute of Technology. Mathematics of Hate, 2017, stainless steel, 30x24x24
Lamentation, 2017, stone, 30x24x24 Burnt Offerings, 2017, stainless steel and barbed wire, 30x24x24
Chaye in Treblinka, 2017, stainless steel, 30x24x24 Rocking an Empty Cradle, 2017, stainless steel and wood, 30x24x24
Joanie Schwarz Joanie Schwarz has been known in the publishing world for over 25 years for her dreamlike imagery and for her endless patience with children. Her photography focuses on connection, with all the love and emotion that goes with creating modern family portraits. Joanie began her career working for magazines such as Time, US News and World Report, NY Times Magazine, LA Times Magazine. She created hundreds of book covers for Simon & Schuster and Scholastic Books. Joanie has BFA in Illustration and a minor in Photography from Syracuse University. She was born in South Orange, New Jersey and now splits her time between Westfield, New Jersey and Telluride, Colorado with her husband Don Rosenthal. Sacred Ground One, 2017, photograph, 20x30
Sacred Ground Two, 2017, photograph, 20x30 The Book of Names One, 2017, photograph, 20x30
The Book of Names Two, 2017, photograph, 20x30 Hope, 2017, photograph, 20x30
Lev Gal Wertman Lev, a Multimedia artist, studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem and has participated in a large number of solo and group exhibitions. He had solo exhibitions in Gordon Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel, The Israel Museum - Jerusalem, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA) - Antwerp, Belgium, The Jewish Museum - NYC and the Documenta X in Kassel, Germany. Latex has been part of Wertman s works ever since he was a student. Wertman describes working with latex: it s like shed-off skin. The material exposes the figures and the portraits the same way emulsion does in photography. I view the works as a type of sculpture, I don t actually paint, but construct. I truly feel that I constructed this portrait. The Figure paintings are like visions, Wertman explains, visions of a sculptor, or of a blind photographer trying to take pictures. Lev Gal Wertman calls upon us to remember something we have never experienced; a vague, deceptive sense of standing on the brink of a memory that may not have happened yet. It is no wonder that the environment created by Wertman brings Science Fiction to mind. The works are placed like fossils that have no context. They seem familiar and foreign at the same time. Perhaps they are remnants of a civilization that has yet to be created. Wertman s archaeology of the future does not expose the past that is, us; it reveals uninhabited spaces, empty rounded abodes simulating the human body, a polymeric reality... - Yaara Shehori from the article Time Machines about the exhibition Time Machines, Time Traps. Currently Wertman is working on a project, In the Beginning, based on chapter 1 of Genesis. The project includes 12 Stained glass windows commissioned by the Gottesman RTW Academy located in Randolph, New Jersey. Young Woman, 2011, latex on canvas, 19.5x19.5
Untitled #38, 2007, aluminum and plaster, dia, 23 h. 5, addition of 7, 8.5x8.5x2 Untitled #24, 2006, oil, latex and pencil on canvas, 24x24
The last number -202499, tattoo ink on traditional Japanese paper, 17x12.5 The last number -SS, tattoo ink on traditional Japanese paper, 17x12.5
Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ (973) 929-3066 fax (973) 884-9316 holocaustcouncil@jfedgmw.org Gaelen Gallery West at the Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus 901 Route 10 East Whippany, NJ 07981 Gallery Hours Monday-Thursday: 9:00am-6:00pm Friday: 9:00am-4:00pm Saturday: CLOSED Sunday* *Please call 973-929-3167 the Friday before. Due to security procedures, the doors will only be open when the front desk is manned. If there are no events scheduled on this day, the doors will be locked.