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THE MEMORIES OF MAYER
KIRSHENBLATT
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Mayer Kirshenblatt is a self-taught artist living and working in Toronto. Born in Apt (Opatów in Polish) in 1916, he arrived in Canada in 1934 at the age of seventeen. After apprenticing to an electrician and cobbler in Poland and working in a sweatshop in Toronto, he painted houses and eventually opened his own wallpaper and paint store. He retired in 1977. In 1990, Mayer began to paint everything he could remember about his hometown and his childhood there. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, his daughter, began interviewing him in 1967 and has continued to do so until the present. She is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. In this exhibition you will be able to see forty of Mayer's works, as well as read, see and hear him talk about Jewish life in his hometown of Apt (Opatów). |
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