Nomi Silverman paintings on display
[focus here on my cousin Nomi. There are 3 other artists at this showing]
It's important to breathe deeply when looking at "The Mud Flat Drawings" by Nomi Silverman. The large, unframed dark charcoal works on paper are about suffering and death by the horrific, genocidal killing machines of the 20th century. Thematically universal in its scope, Silverman shrouds one or two human forms in blacks, deep browns, hints of flesh colors and dabs of dirt - the earth that absorbs human remains. Emerging from energetic, abstract brush strokes are charcoal-lined partial skeletons, limbs, skulls - the icons that feed our sense of dread; symbols that jog the harsh reality of despaintings by Silverman...[continued]