The art of Samuel Bak depicts a world destroyed and yet provisionally pieced back together.
Bak preserves memory of the twentieth century ruinati.
Bak\'s pictorial readings invite reconsideration of the Post-Reformation privileging of word over image, and of the Post-Enlightenment privileging of reason over experience.
Across nearly seven decades of artistic production Samuel Bak has explored and reworked a set of metaphors, a visual grammar and vocabulary, that ultimately privileges questions.
The art of Samuel Bak depicts a world destroyed and yet provisionally pieced back together