American Art and Music Featured in Katowice

December 16, 2008

One of the installation paintings

The Marcholt Gallery in Katowice is hosting the show Where the Past Meets the Future by Boston artist Fay Grajower. The installation is comprised over 100 mixed media wooden "boxes", each standing alone as an individual painting of a story, place, object or stone of memory, and together forming a mosaic wall, showing a revived world steeped in its past and looking towards its future.  Ms. Grajower is a descendant of a Jewish family from Krakow, and her exhibition was inspired by photographs and stories from pre-war Galicia. The show will be at Marcholt Gallery through mid-January.

At the opening on December 15, American jazz pianist Lee Sloan played improvisational tunes based on the work of Jewish-American composers. Lee Sloan is one of a few pianists who undertakes the challenge of solo concerts of entirely improvised music. Born in the United States into a musical family, Lee began playing the piano at the age of five. He attended the Berklee College, Boston and was a student of the renowned Polish pianist, Josef Hofmann at The Juilliard School in New York. Lee has worked as a soloist and in jazz ensembles in Great Britain, France, Germany, and Eastern Europe, performing with many of Europe’s finest musicians.