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\"CoverLight Within the Shadows<\/em> is a lively and moving memoir that chronicles Pnina Granirer’s life as an artist, wife and mother. Conceived as a play in three acts, it begins in her hometown in Romania, moves to its second act in Israel, and concludes with her life in North America. It encompasses her years in Israel, the USA, France and Canada, and her travels to Japan, Spain and Mexico, all of which inform her understanding of the world which is then reflected in her art.
\nLight within the Shadows<\/em> was published in May 2017 and is available in better bookstores and on Amazon.
\nPlease visit the Reviews section<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A copy of the ebook can be purchased by following this link.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Colour Inserts<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ein Karem<\/em>, 1959 | oil on card | 19 x 27 in | 48 x 69 cm, Collection of Dan and Daphne Gelbart, p 180a Sold<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Parade,
Parade<\/em>, 1964 | printing inks on card | 22 x 30 in | 51 x 76 cm Collection of Don and Phyllis Lamont, p 180b<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Child\u2019s
Child\u2019s Journey<\/em>, 1975 | diptych | mixed media on paper | 2\u00d7 30 x 22 in | 2\u00d7 76 x 56 cm, p. 180c<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Leend
Legend of Forbidden Plateau<\/em>, 1978 | triptych | mixed media on Fabriano paper | 3\u00d7 39 x 27 in | 99 x 69 cm, Private Collection, p. 180d Sold<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Portrait
Portrait of a Kwakiutl Man<\/em>, 1978 | mixed media on Fabriano paper | 22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm , p. 180d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Out
Out of the Flames<\/em>, 1988 | triptych | mixed media on paper | 3\u00d7 40 x 30 in | 101.8 x 76 cm Collection of Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem, p 180e<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Stonehead
Stonehead blue<\/em>, 1988 | mixed media on paper | 30 x 22 in | 76 x 56 cm, Collection of Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC, p. 180f<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Stone
Stone Birth<\/em>, 1989 | mixed media on paper | 30 x 40 in | 76 x 101.5 cm Collection Earth, Oceans & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, p. 180g<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Carved
Carved Stones<\/em>, 1988 | diptych | mixed media on paper | 2\u00d7 40 x 60 in | 101.5 x 152.5 cm Collection of Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC, p. 180g<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fantasy
Fantasy in the Old Quarry, 1989 | mixed media on paper | 22 x 30 in | 56 x 76 cm Collection of Fundaci\u00f3n Museo Eugenio Granell | Santiago de Compostela, Spain, p. 180h<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Three
Three Kings<\/em>, 1989 | mixed media on card | 10 x 12 in | 27 x 23.5 cm Collection of Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes | Santiago, Chile, p. 180h<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fountains,
Fountains<\/em>, 1992 | triptych | mixed media on paper | 3\u00d7 40 x 30 in | 3\u00d7 101.6 x 76 cmCollection of the Segal Centre for Mental Health, Vancouver, BC, p 300a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sand
Sand Garden<\/em>, 1991 | mixed media on paper | 30 x 40 in | 76 x 101.5 cm Kyoto Suite, p 300a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Definition
Definition of Eden<\/em>, 1994 | mixed media on canvas | 48 x 60 in | 122 x 152.5 cm, Collection of the Vancouver Jewish Community Centre, p. 300b<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Gift
Gift of Laughter<\/em>, 1995 | mixed media on canvas | 48 x 36 in | 122 x 91.5 cm, Private Collection, p. 300c<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Apex
Apex<\/em>. 2001 | mixed media on canvas | 36 x 48 in | 91.5 x 122 cm,Collection of Laurie and Bob Molday, p. 300d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Blue
Blue Dreams<\/em>, 2004 | mixed media on canvas | 20 x 24 in | 51 x 61 cm, p300d Sold<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fate
Fate<\/em>, 2005 | mixed media on canvas | 36 x 36 in | 91.5 x 91.5 cm, Collection of Tim Salcudean, p. 300e<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Floating
Floating Dancers<\/em> \u2014 installation for dance performance Choreo+Graphe 2005 | Burnaby Art Gallery | Burnaby, BC, p. 300f<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Silent
Silent Spectator and Floating Dancers<\/em> \u2014 installation, 2001 | Yukon Art Gallery | Whitehorse, YT, p. 300g<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Dancers\u2019 Suite<\/em> \u2014 installation 2001 | Yukon Art Gallery | Whitehorse, YT, p. 300g<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Guanajuato
Guanajuato Variations<\/em>, 2011 | digital photography | 15 x 24 in | 38 x 61 cm, p. 300h<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dreamscape
Dreamscape<\/em>, 2011 | digital photography | 15 x 24 in | 38 x 61 cm, p. 300h<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Testimonials<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Light Within the Shadows<\/em>) is a lively and touching act of memory and affirmation, as vivid, theatrical and perceptive as Granirer\u2019s paintings themselves. It shows both an artist\u2019s eye for the telling detail and a historian\u2019s awareness of social and political context. Despite life\u2019s vicissitudes, she retains a freshness and sense of wonder as we travel from her origins in a tumultuous Europe through army service in Israel to her eventual place of safety and fulfilment among like-minded friends in Canada.
\n\u2013 Max Wyman<\/em>
\nCritic and cultural commentator<\/p>\n

Light Within the Shadows<\/em> is an artist\u2019s triptych spanning three continents and a historical primer on Pnina Granirer\u2019s life: her early years at the heart of Europe in Romania before, during, and after the Second World War under the Nazis and the Communists, where her family and Jewish community in Bra\u0306ila were immunized by a Romanian concoction of kindness and corruption, and the connivings of a canny mother with an eye for recycling designer clothes and making deals with devils.
\nFor me, the standouts of the book are its moments of graphic memory, some sensory, some sensationally sad and curious. After confiscating her father\u2019s library of leather-bound books, a Nazi official has them stacked on the shelves in his office, not to be read, but to make them look good and him important. A fabulous black woman, Lulu Belle, staring at me out of a surreal drawing across the counter of her antique curio shop in Urbana, Illinois.
\nAlthough Pnina Granirer calls the book her \u201cvisual diary,\u201d many fine, sensory turns of phrase lingered after I finished reading it . . . \u201cthe perfume of pencils,\u201d for example. Anyone who can come up with that and revive my own memories of ink wells and my wooden desk and lead (graphite) in the pencil I held between my childish fingers has me involved with all five senses in her life story.
\n-George McWhirter<\/em>
\nProfessor Emeritus of Creative Writing, UBC Author of numerous works of fiction and poetry<\/p>\n

Pnina Granirer offers a personal glimpse into the history of the 20th Century, from the fate of the Jews in her native Romania to her family\u2019s move to a new and exciting Israel and finally, after three years in the USA, arriving and settling in Vancouver, Canada. We see her growth from humble beginnings as an illustrator in Israel into a prolific artist in Canada. The tug-of-war that family and career represent for women is vividly expressed in these pages. She shares her moments of doubt and uncertainty with the reader, as well as her decision to follow her own course, regardless of the cost. To our benefit, Granirer is an intelligent and creative artist and writer. The memoir comes full circle when she returns to Romania after an absence of 65 years, and her three wishes, common to most exiles, are fulfilled.
\nPnina Granirer\u2019s exhibition Legends will showcase the series Medea and The Cannibal Bird Suite at our museum in July 2017.
\nNatalia Fern\u00e1ndez<\/em>, Director
\nMuseum Fundaci\u00f3n Eugenio Granell
\nSantiago de Compostela, Spain<\/p>\n

Pnina Granirer\u2019s memoir of her life from 1935 to the present describes a true artist\u2019s odyssey conceived as a drama in three acts, starting with a perilous childhood as a Jewish girl in 1940s Romania, continuing with emigration to Israel in the early years of the state, and concluding with a long creative period in North America, mostly based in Vancouver. Granirer writes with a painter\u2019s eye, vividly evoking cities from Jerusalem to Paris to Montreal, and landscapes from the coastal sand dunes of Israel to the far north of Canada.
\nGranirer shares her creative process and how it relates to her life experience in three very different cultures, with their different opportunities and limitationsThis thoughtful and fascinating memoir would appeal to anyone interested in the creative life, and how it was lived by one gifted and determined artist through the vicissitudes of the 20th century and into the 21st.
\n-Graham Good<\/em>
\nProfessor Emeritus of English, University of British Columbia
\nAuthor of The Observing Self and Humanism Betrayed<\/em><\/p>\n

Pnina Granirer takes us deep within a child\u2019s revelations of wonderment and beauty that have not deserted the artist almost a lifetime later. From our privileged vantage we experience through her remarkable journey the power of an artist\u2019s ceaseless investigation of the world without and within. The reader is carried by the emotion of what is here a constant interplay of immediate perception, remembrance and the dream-like yearning that singularly marks the human consciousness.
\n– Salem Alaton<\/em>
\nHumber College Professor of Journalism
\nFormer Globe and Mail<\/em> New York arts correspondent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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