Press on Facing Survival

BY Eric Lindberg. SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 David Kassan works on his portrait of Holocaust survivor Joshua Kaufman ahead of a special exhibition at the USC Fisher Museum of Art. (Photo/Courtesy of USC Fisher Museum of Art)   Painter David Kassan has [...]

BY ROBERTO LOIEDERMAN | OCT 2, 2019 | ARTS     Hanna Davidson Pankowsky in “East of the Storm" by David Kassan Photo courtesy of Gallery Henoch Surrounded by painter David Kassan’s moving and painstakingly detailed portraits of Holocaust survivors, Executive Director of USC [...]

By DEBORAH VANKIN SEP. 12, 2019 | SUNDAY | LA TIMESDeath is not something 91-year-old Joshua Kaufman is afraid of. Not now, after having survived four Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Not even after he’d [...]

When Elsa Ross posed for her portrait, she had to remember not tosmile. In 2015, she arrived at the Albuquerque studio of the painterDavid Kassan (b. 1977), wearing the simple black outfit he hadrequested and [...]

Glance at one of David Kassan’s artworks depicting Holocaust survivors Samuel Goldofsky or Elsa Ross and you might assume it’s a photograph. But look closer and the piece comes to life as an intricately detailed [...]

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS - JUNE 26, 2015 To life: S. Jersey native is finding his roots through art   BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A woman sits between two easels in David Kassan’s studio, her bony dancer’s feet dangling above the [...]