EXCERPTS FROM VISIONARY EXPRESSIONISM:  A ZIONIST ART

"A Zionist is an artist fashioning Jewish historical destiny out of crude materials--a worker in the roughest stone, the most stubborn of metals. He issues masterpieces out of scraps."
                                                                                                    -Alan Kaufman


"While Visionary Expressionism resonates with the influence of the Western greats, it is nevertheless, not theirs. Kaufman's work departs from the modern canon as an aesthetic experiment, a symbolic portrayal of the psychological pain that the Jewish people bear from a long Diaspora in exile." 
                                                                                                    -Shana Carp


"How did it happen that Zionism would, in the mind of San Francisco-based gallery owner, become radioactive, the Scarlet Z, a symbol not of Jewish salvation and continuity in the aftermath of the Holocaust, but rather something sinister, dangerous, and lethal to one's business and reputation?"
                                                                                                    - Thane Rosenbaum


EVENTS FOR VISIONARY EXPRESSIONISM: Join us on Sunday, December 7 at Book Zoo in Oakland! More details here.



PRAISE FOR VISIONARY EXPRESSIONISM: A ZIONIST ART 

"We need something radically new in painting, a new identity for the artist that makes him or her deeply responsible for the freedom in which they work. Kaufman shows us we can stand and fight hatred and self-hatred with brush and pen in hand. He paints the picture we need."
- David Rosenberg, author of Abraham: The First Historical Biography; A Poet's Bible; translator for the Book of J