Dark to Light, From the Holocaust to America

At a gallery in the St. Paul Vandalia Tower, Dan Smith runs around adjusting spotlights and straightening paintings. He’s putting on an impromptu art retrospective featuring hundreds of artworks by his mother, Lucy Kreisler Smith, who died in 2022 at the age of 89. “A lot of her painting was influenced by the Holocaust, but there’s only a couple of them that I could say are directly about the Holocaust,” Dan Smith says. “There’s a lot of political things in her drawings, some of which are quite relevant today.” The show is called “Dark to Light: From the Holocaust to America.”

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