Gershon IskowitzLife & Work

“For Gershon Iskowitz, his art and life were inseparable and we must try to understand his circumstances—the trauma of the Holocaust and the uncertainty of the immediate post-War period. His early figurative images are his world observed and remembered. With the later abstract works, he made his own vision of the world, even as he made himself a ‘new man’ in it.”

– Ihor Holubizky

Author Ihor Holubizky explores the career of this remarkable artist, from his early largely figurative work focused on Holocaust themes to his turn toward epic and colourful canvases. In 1967 Iskowitz began creating luminous abstracted landscape paintings of bright, vibrating hues: iconic images in Canadian art that propelled him to new levels of recognition and that reached international audiences.

Copyright Information

Banner Image: Gershon Iskowitz, Uplands B, 1970. Private Collection. Courtesy of Miriam Shiell Fine Art. © Gershon Iskowitz Foundation.