Leslie Nobler
, 2023
Mixed Media Variable; here 7 ft H x 5 ft W x 30 in D
This piece borrows heavily from Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party,” as it simultaneously delves into my research on woman artists who kept their creativity going (however they could) while incarcerated in the death camps of WWII’s Holocaust. In this historical fiction reimagining, Chana (usually pronounced Hannah) Kowalska Winogora, surrounded by bits of the naïve floral landscapes she is known for, is partaking in her last dinner before being put to death – enabling reflection on her actual awful murder in Auschwitz. As di Vinci’s “The Last Supper” is considered to be a Passover Seder by some scholars, I incorporated several of those elements, symbolically Jewish and otherwise.
