Jack Wolfe

Events

Jack was released from worldly cares on November 18, 2007 to go to, as he put it in the weeks before he died, “unencumbered space.” He died peacefully at home with his family after a long struggle with cancer. As we mourn his loss, we remember with gratitude his exemplary life and consummate mastery of his art. It was a privilege and honor to have his life touch ours.





Fall 2009

The Odysseus Project

Jack's work is included in a provocative online exhibit sponsored by the Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social consequences.  Two pieces, Roxbury Portrait (1967), and Nam - America, What Are You Doing?! (1972) are included.  The  curated exhibit presents  artists'  experience of war and returning home from war.  The link to the site is:  www.nervegarden.com/odysseusproject/onlineexhibit.html.   


In the Studio for Fall 2009:  we have brought several large paintings from the 1960's out of storage, and will rotate them throught the Fall and Winter.  These are  large, colorful abstractions, hard-edged, geometric, and brilliant.  Come and take a look!


We are undertaking the long process of compiling a catalog  of Jack's decades of extensive work .  If you own a Jack Wolfe painting, we would appreciate greatly an image, if possible with the dimensions, date, medium, and title.  It can be sent to wolfestudio@gmail.com .  Thank you!



Fall 2008

The Jack Wolfe Studio is pleased to donate several paintings to cancer centers in the hospitals which treated Jack during his illness.  Chosen for their particularly beautiful and cheering colors, the paintings will give respite and comfort to patients, families, friends and staff.  The paintings will hang in the waiting areas of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, and Caritas Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton.

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to these providers, and most especially to Dr. Karim S. Malek of Good Samaritan, who cared for Jack during his last two years with utmost compassion and warmth.





Fall 2006: Providence College showed selections from a major series of twenty-four large (6’ x 6’) portraits of Native Americans entitled “Survivors of the American Holocaust.” Also shown were drawings and a video about the artist and the production of the Survivors series, which spanned more than fifteen years.