The Samuel Bak Gallery and Learning Center in Loving Memory of Hope
Silber Kaplan at the Holocaust Museum Houston is a destination for
a richly diverse general public, the country's academic community,
and Holocaust scholars from around the world. Bak's legacy at HMH
is demonstrated through 125 incredibly complex, memory-inciting,
and dramatically hued paintings, generously donated to the museum
by the artist. The collection contains early paintings he made as a
child prodigy in the Vilna Ghetto, works created throughout his
early career, and paintings from the twenty-first century. Pears,
landscapes, dice, candles, religious iconography, letters of the
Hebrew alphabet, musicians, cups, faces and figures, books,
buildings, ships, objects so often broken and in disrepair. Through
these symbols, Bak paints into being eternal questions about life,
loss, love, identity, repair, and responsibility. Viewers grapple
with the dilemmas of fathoming the past and making sense of life in
the complex world we share. In this publication, which accompanies
the exhibit, Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer unpacks and gives
context to Bak's dense visual vocabulary. An extensive interview
with the artist discusses his process and speaks specifically about
each work in the collection.
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