Center Makor

Art About the Holocaust
2026-01-27 - 2026-02-10 | Community Hub, 1320 Centre St, Newton Centre, MA, 02459, United States
Art About the Holocaust
UN Holocaust Remembrance Day
Exhibition and Film Screening
Screening of the documentary film The Lost Brothers, Israel.
An exhibition of graphic art, photographs, and wood inlay work.
Artworks by Alexander Gassel, Andrey Gagarin, and Mikhail Faktorovich.
Grand Opening
Tuesday, January 27, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 28, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 29, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets – $18
The exhibition is on display until February 10
Group visits are welcome
Additional exhibition hours:
February 1: 4-6 р.м. and 6-8 р.м.
February 3: 6-8 р.м.
February 4: 6-8 р.м.
February 10: 6-8 р.м.
If you want to organize group or personal viewing at convenient time, contact us at centermakor@gmail.com
Community Hub
1320 Centre St., Newton
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Alexander Gassel is a Russian-American artist and designer. Blending the avant-garde with traditional Russian iconography and combining ancient symbols with contemporary subjects, Gassel creates surrealist works that reflect his cultural heritage alongside his experience of life in America.
Alexander Gassel uses ancient techniques employed in the creation of icon paintings. He paints with egg yolk tempera, making his own color pigments by grinding natural stones and minerals, such as malachite, cinnabar, or lapis into powder, which he then mixes with egg yolk. The artist often applies gold or silver leaf on the paintings. Blending the avant-garde with traditional Russian iconography, combining ancient symbols with contemporary subjects, Gassel creates surrealist works that reflect his cultural heritage alongside his experience of life in America.
Learn more about Alexander Gassel and his works at alexandergassel.com
Andrey Gagarin
I am a 74-year-old psychiatrist with no formal photographic education, but I have been making photographs since the age of twelve. My work arises from observation rather than instruction — from standing still, listening, and looking carefully at the world in front of me.
The image of Birkenau was taken six years ago using infrared optics. I chose infrared not for effect, but because it reveals what ordinary sight cannot: the quiet trace of time, the way memory lingers in light long after people have disappeared. For me, this photograph is not a document of a place, but an encounter with history — a way of seeing underlying presence and absence at the same moment.
Photography, like psychiatry, is an act of attention. It asks you to stay, to witness, and to hold what is often difficult to hold. This is what I try to do with my images.

Michael Farro (Mikhail Faktorovich) — Marquetry
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Michael Farro was born in Bobruisk, Belarus. He studied at MIIT in Moscow and earned a Ph.D. in Economics. Michael works as a computer programmer and has taught computer science at Boston University. In parallel with his technical career, he pursues marquetry — creating narrative wood veneer panels that explore memory, history, and human experience. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife.

This event takes place at our Community Hub located at 1320 Centre St., Newton, 02459.
Parking is available between the buildings or on the ramp behind the open bar gate. Newton Centre T Station is 6 minutes away by foot.
Find Center Makor on the display by the entrance door and call us.
The building is accessible to people with disabilities.
