A vividly colored landscape near his family home in Israel, the forest in Ukraine where many family members were murdered during the Holocaust and a dance party on Fire Island are subjects of New York artist Doron Langberg’s huge new canvases at Deitch Gallery, all an attempt to personally process two years of war. Langberg wrote a statement about his new work and gave an interview to the New York Times; beyond that, visitors are left to make their own interpretation of the peaceful and fraught places pictured. The artist explains that Van Gogh and Munch inspired him to look to the landscape as a place to grapple with darkness; by extension, here he pictures the community at the Meat Rack rave which momentarily gave relief to pervasive feelings of heaviness. (On view through this Saturday, April 25th in Tribeca).
