A new exhibition from Israeli artist Chana Cromer will be on display in the Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom. The exhibit, “Still Looking Up,” will be open from April 27 to Aug. 7.
“Still Looking Up” focuses around a series of tree paintings that Cromer started in November of 2021 after exiting self-confinement because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibit features art made with acrylic on canvas, collaged mixed media, and fabric techniques.
“[Cromer’s ‘Still Looking Up’] gathers the portraits of solitary trees and creates a pseudo-forest inside the gallery,” said Yuval Orion, a curator at Marie Gallery in Jerusalem, Israel, in April of 2022. “The viewer is invited to wander in the forest and join in the search for a new perspective - a sensitive examination of the nature that surrounds us.”
Cromer was raised in Kansas City and made aliyah to Israel in 1972. She is the daughter of Olga and Michael Rothstein. She holds a bachelor’s degree in literature from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; a master of arts in teaching degree from Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts; and a bachelor of fine arts degree at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She also studied etching at Pratt Institute in New York City and textile techniques at Philadelphia College of the Arts.
The exhibit’s opening event will be on Thursday, April 27, from 4 to 7 p.m., at the Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom, 5500 W 123rd St, Leawood, KS 66209. The exhibit will remain open until Aug. 7, 2023.
More information about Chana Cromer is available at chana-cromer.com. More information about the Epsten Gallery is available at epstengallery.org.