WAR at the HudsonValley MOCA exhibits Jeffrey Schriers’ WAR-PAINT
February 17 – April 10, 2024
WAR-PAINT: Jeffrey Schrier, 2024
About the art:
Within a Raoul Wallenberg Shutz-Pass format, a Maimonides 1173 letter scribed to aid the release of Jewish captives of the crusades, is inset with an image of doorposts streaked with red X’s, intended to subvert death from Jewish dwellings, as described in the Passover biblical narrative. Also included are images from my cover art for Gustav Holst’s The Planets recorded for Ken Russel’s film of the same name, images I used from my art for historian David McCullough’s narrative of 100 years of the world’s most impactful events, and a reproduction of a coin minted by our uncle Marion Gaisler, a freedom fighter against the Nazis, in the Polish Underground. A ‘deconstructed’ image of a Nazi military march is included below the smeared doorposts, also in the art for the Planets. The red streaked door posts inform the work’s WAR-PAINT title.
