Legacy

Friday, January 25, 2019 – Saturday, March 9, 2019

by Anita Kroeger

Anita Kroeger uses her art to help reconcile her family's twin legacies of pain and courage.

Legacy explores how Kroeger processes her family's experience of oppression, war and dislocation. Her parents fled the Soviet Union During the Second World War. They lost their home in the Ukraine and nearly everything the family had built there over generations. Kroeger's art reflects that sense of loss, but also speaks to a legacy of resilience that helped her family rebuild their lives in Canada.

Kroeger's artworks ask questions about the nature of oppression, the meaning of exile, and the ways in which the past informs the present. Her pieces, initially ment to be a private acknowledgement of the pain and suffereing experienced by her family and other, she now shares with the public in a realization of how many have experienced similar journeys of oppresssion, loss and perseverance.

Visitors are invited to experience Legacy and, through it, consider the legacies left to them by their families and forebears.

For more information: CANVASs January/February Newsletter

See concurrent exhibit: REVERENCE

Opening day: Friday, January 25, 7:30–9:30 PM

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