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Artists in Our Midst 2022 Book Launch,

Some of the paintings featured in the book will be exhibited and the books will be available during the whole time of the opening and during my open studio a week later.

Some reviews:

This poignant collection serves as an important reminder of the fragile and tenuous nature of our own existence, the incredible power of art, love, community and the awe- inspiring mystery, beauty and hope we can all find when we take the time to reconnect with nature and ourselves.
– Paul F. Crawford Director/Curator at Penticton Art Gallery

Powerful themes of war, plague, sadness, joy and memory, questioning the human condition with delicacy and compassion.
– Lillian Boraks-Nemetz Author of Out of the Dark

 

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You Are Not Alone, Penticton

In September, Pnina took part in the You are not alone exhibition at the Penticton Art Gallery.  (The description is below). A permanent online exhibition can be viewed here.  

While the isolation imposed by governments worldwide during the Covid-19 pandemic protected us from the dangers of a contagious virus, it also exposed us to the ever growing threat of separation on our psychological and social health. In these challenging times only our collective awareness that none of us are in this alone — that human beings everywhere on this planet face the same threat — allowed us to keep our solidarity, our  togetherness and our strength while in quarantine.

This exhibition is a collective effort and joint statement from 180 artists around the globe that we stand together and that we will always find our space to create, adapt and stand strong.

These 300 multiple-medium artworks are the result of an open call released in March 2020 by the Penticton art gallery in Canada,the Syria.art Association (Nice/Berlin) and the Online Cyrrus Gallery celebrating a strong and creative partnership and demonstrating the ability of art in bringing people together.

These works will be kept as an archive to serve as a time capsule, a permanent document of this moment in our collective history. The collection will be made available for loan to other galleries and museums across the globe and in a permanent online exhibition. The exhibition was shown in Penticton, Canada in September 2020 and will be shown in Nice, France in 2022.

Curated by Humam Alsalim and Paul Crawford.

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Pnina Speaking at Richmond Public Library, February 3rd, at 2:30 pm

 

Pnina Granirer in RichmondPnina will take part in the Winter Author Events series at the Richmond Public Library on Sunday, February 3, at 2:30 pm.

Light Within the Shadows is a lively and moving memoir about the author’s life as an artist, wife and mother. The author’s journey begins in Romania, continues in Israel and concludes in North America.

Pnina is a celebrated painter, print maker and a Romanian Jew who survived World War II and immigrated to North America.

 

 

 

 

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Pnina in Victoria

Pnina Will Speak at Bastion Books, Victoria, BC, May 3 at 7 pm

Photo of Pnina GranirerPnina will discuss the various aspects of writing a book — as opposed to the creation of a painting. The most dramatic difference between these two is the element of time. While working on a visual piece, the artist sees the work in its entirety during its creation, with each addition and change visible as soon as they happen.

Not so with writing. Reading the written words requires time; once they are written and as the writer continues writing, the first text recedes, allowing for the new words to appear. The writer cannot see all the words at one given moment; time is needed to access the story and to become fully aware of its contents.

Conceived as a play in three acts, Pnina’s story unfolds from her Romanian hometown on the Danube River, to art school in Jerusalem, followed by three years spent in the USA, time in Montreal and later in Paris, finally settling in Vancouver. Issues of dislocation, ‘otherness,’ and the uprooted soul’s wish for permanency and belonging will be discussed.

For the fortunate ones who have not experienced war, fascism and communism, the historical references seen through personal experience might be enlightening and revealing of unfamiliar realities.

“From my experience as a visual artist, I realised that most people know almost nothing about the creative process and the politics of the art world. This talk will give the listeners a glimpse into this unknown territory,” Pnina explains.
 
Making of an Artist, Pnina Granirer, Victoria, BC, May 2, 7 pm, Congregation Emanu-El

Making of an artist: Pnina GranirerYou are invited to attend “Making of an artist: Pnina Granirer” at Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue. Entry is by donation: book signing to follow: light refreshments will be served.

After a long career as a visual artist, Pnina Granirer published her memoir Light Within The Shadows last year. Congregation Emanu-El Adult Education Team invites you to the synagogue on May 2, 2018, at 7 pm when Pnina will share her story with us. Born in Romania in 1935, she moved to Israel in 1950 and came to Canada in 1965. Throughout her life, she has created a large body of art while searching for beauty and spirituality. She will speak to us of her successes and failures and how issues of dislocation, otherness, being a woman and the uprooted soul’s wish for permanency and belonging shaped her art. She will offer us insight into how art is forged and released into the world.

Pnina Granirer has exhibited her work locally, nationally and internationally since 1962. She has shown in more than eighty solo exhibitions. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, and in books and exhibition catalogues in Canada, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica and Chile. Her works are found in many private and Public Galleries collections in Canada (some as Cultural Property donations), the US, Chile, Europe and Israel. Recently her triptych Sorrow, Hope, Truth has been hung in Government House, Victoria BC.