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Article: My Father's House
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- Jerusalem Post
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- July 21, 1995
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Angela Levine
Jerusalem Post
07-21-1995
Memories of family life have provided subject matter for many Jewish painters. Just think of Chagall's dream images of Vitebsk or Jankel Adler's portraits of his family circle; such recollections are usually linked to the shtetl or to Jewish tradition.
This is not the case with Maya Gordon, a talented painter (Polish-born, a 1970 graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design) now living in Holland. The memories surfacing in her large mixed-media paintings (inks, watercolors and pastels on paper) are not of Jewish life, but of parents who were communists and ordered their household according to a strict code of conduct.
An atmosphere ...