Private View: The Matters

Ein Sof Gallery presents The Matters, an exhibition of  paintings, watercolours, and drawings by Michael Ajerman. The exhibition focuses on selected portraits of the artist’s grandmother, Sarah Pass and recent oil paintings.  Born in a small town close to Płońsk, Poland to Jewish parents.  Her mother owned a convenience store, while her father worked in deliveries.  Sarah would find herself imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp for all of her teen years. After liberation she would briefly live in Germany where she met Chaim Pass, whom she would marry. Then immigrating to the United States.  Sarah lived to the age of 95, passing away during the Covid Pandemic.  

Over the many sittings working from direct observation with Sarah,  Ajerman explored and searched for what portraiture could be for him.  Leading to surprising results in graphite pencil, colour pencil, and watercolor.  As a subject, Sarah’s face and physique was the voltage…