Represented by Pucker Gallery since 1969

BORN: August 12, 1933, in Vilna, Poland (now Lithuania)
RESIDES: Weston, Massachusetts

Most Recent Exhibition:

Icon of Loss: Recent Paintings by Samuel Bak
18 October - 30 November 2008

Upcoming Exhibition:
Figuring Figures: New Work by Samuel Bak
16 April - 31 May 2010
Opening Reception: 16 April 2010, 3:00-6:00 pm
The artist will be present.

Other Venues:

The Art of the Question: Paintings by Samuel Bak, traveling exhibition to:
Eric Dean Gallery, Wabash College
2 March - 12 April 2009
The Prindle Institute of Ethics @ DePauw University
13 April - 8 May 2009
Korn Gallery, Drew University
9 October - 24 November 2009

Icons of Loss: The Art of Samuel Bak
Florida Holocaust Museum
1 November 2009 - 25 April 2010

Please contact Pucker Gallery for more details on these and other exhibitions.

RECENT WORK
Icon of Loss, 2008
Remembering Angels, 2007
Old Perceptions of New Appearances, 2004
...your move, Chess Revisited, 2003 Return to Vilna, 2002

Samuel Bak was born in 1933 in Vilna, Poland, and was recognized from an early age as possessing extraordinary artistic talent. As Vilna came under German occupation in 1940, Bak and his family moved into the Vilna ghetto, and later to a labor camp, from which he was smuggled and given refuge in a monastery. At the end of the war, his mother and he were the only members of his extensive family still alive.

Bak, now 76, has spent his life dealing with the artistic expression of the destruction and dehumanization which make up his childhood memories. He speaks about what are deemed to be the unspeakable atrocities of the Holocaust. He has created a visual language to remind the world of its most desperate moments.