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Burt Hasen
A Pathway to a Clearing in the Desert
, 1992-1994
Oil on canvas; 40" x 28"
Education:
Art Students League of New York; Hans Hofmann School of Fine
Arts, NY; L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris; Accademia delle Belle Arti,
Rome; Lacouriere Etching Workshop, Paris.
Selected Collections:
Bibliothèque
Nationale de France, Paris; Brooklyn Museum, NY; New York Public Library, NY
During the Second World War, Burt Hasen did not qualify to become a pilot in the
U.S. Air Force. For the rest of his life, he imagined himself flying high above the
landscape and looking down through a shattered windscreen. His strong attach-
ment to the state of Israel and his imagined protection in the guise of a pilot is
apparent in this painting.
Tamar Hirschl
Exodus II,
2000.
Mixed media mural on vinyl; 94" x 33 1/2"
Education:
M.F.A., Lesley College, Boston, MA.; The State College of Art, Tel Aviv,
Israel; Tel Aviv Kalisher School of Art, Israel; Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem.
Selected Exhibitions:
Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA; 51
st
Venice Biennale, Venice; 9th
International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul; Queens Museum of Art, NY
“
I have looked to art as a filtering mechanism on the lens of life, which allows me to
visualize, from a distance, the pain, destruction and suffering of my childhood. I use
the act of painting and drawing as a means to build both imaginary and real bridges be-
tween my memories of the past and my hopes for the future. My artistic concerns and
consciousness, therefore, are always informed by the forces that disrupt, destroy, and dis-
unite people, cultures and religions. It is this consciousness that I want to make visible in
my work; I believe it is fitting in our turbulent times.”
Gillie Holme
The Disappeared,
2001.
Tracing paper, pencil, vintage
photographs; 11" x 13 1/2"
Education:
The Central School of Art
&
Design, London.
Selected Collec-
tions:
University of Massachusetts
The preoccupation with small, altered,
photographic objects continues as does
the artist’s surrealist obsession with
works in, on, or of paper.