Sephardic Visions

SEPHARDIC VISIONS

Sephardic Visions incorporates the work of four artists with different ties to the Jewish and Latino traditions.

It features Argentine-born Israeli artist Liliana Livneh, world renowned abstract expressionist painter Baruj Salinas, who was born to Sephardic parents in Cuba, New Mexico's Jacobo de la Serna's exploration of his family's mysterious spiritual practices and likely Sephardic roots and Catalunyan Jordi Pedrola's moving contemporary portraits of imagined Sephardim throughout their Mediterranean dispersion.

Inspiration for the show is drawn from their varied experiences and encounters with the identity of Jews expelled from Spanish-ruled lands. From the far-flung, hidden and cryptic to the personal and even the imagined, Sephardic Visions suggests what was, what is and what might have been. Join us for a gallery reception with kosher wine and cheese.

RSVP here. A $10 donation requested.


August 24, 2008 at 7pm
Gaymont Gallery
3948 N. Southport, Chicago