Phillips, Gary — Just Is : New Paintings by Samuel Bak

Boston, Pucker Gallery, 2016. Softcover. Glossy, color-illus. wraps. 31 pp. full of color images. Just Is, according to Gary Phillips, aims to demonstrate an “alternative universe where the promise of divine justice is reprised through the lens of the Holocaust world.” Bak’s paintings ask, but do not answer, what would be if violence, not justice, structured human existence. Catalogue from the gallery show held December 2016 to January 2017 in Boston. With an essay by Gary Phillips. New .