Kwan Fong Gallery
California Lutheran University
Thousand Oaks, CA
The David Labkovski Project displayed the exhibit Documenting History through Art at the Kwan Fong Gallery at California Lutheran University.
A narrative artist, David Labkovski (1906-1991) examined his experiences of World War II, the Holocaust and their aftermath in autobiographical drawings and paintings.
Grounded in memory, his work is a visual diary in oil, gouache, charcoal and pen drawings. His paintings offer glimpses of the thriving Jewish community in Vilnius (or Vilna), Lithuania, of what he endured in a Soviet forced-labor camp, of the looting and destruction of Vilnius, and of his search for peace and renewal.
The works displayed were generously loaned from private collections. Curated by Leora Raikin and Stephanie Wolfson of the David Labkovski Project.
This exhibit became our virtual exhibit Documenting History through Art. You can visit it and other online exhibits here.
