Press for the Noah and the Fluid Futures Exhibitions, NYC

(Excerpt) “Yona Verwer’s watery, dream-like paintings feel like narratives submerged, suspended in water and in time. Ideas, characters, and symbols pulled from European art and Jewish texts and traditions float against backgrounds that are stenciled, airbrushed, and painted in layers, forming subtle patterns that fade into fields of color. Referencing narrative arts from various time periods, such as medieval illuminated manuscripts and 16th-century Dutch painting, her contemporary call to action builds upon the multitude of sources that have professed similar lessons in the past.” ‍

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‍ ‍ By Simi Horwitz

(Excerpt) “My being Jewish, a religious Jew, has had a bearing on how I look at everything,” said Verwer who says that water and its preservation is deeply important to her not least because for more than 2,000 years Judaism has had many rules to safeguard water. As a Holland native she grew up near water and so it was always part of her universe”…..

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