In Pnina Granirer: Portrait of an Artist Ted Lindberg captures the development in life and art of one of Canada's finest painters. Over the past forty years Pnina Granirer has been exploring and extending her perception of the world around us with exuberantly colourful and formally innovative paintings and prints.

Lindberg analyzes in detail Granirer's art from her early years in Romania through her student drawings in Israel to her mature works in Canada. He offers detailed accounts of the major thematic developments: the Childhood Magic Series, the West Coast Suite, the Carved Stones Series, the Trials of Eve Suite, and the Eden Series. Lindberg also reveals how Granirer's recent work successfully challenges the age old nature/culture dichotomy and re-configures the vision of the artist to include Woman in all her many guises.

Lavishly illustrated, Pnina Granirer: Portrait of an Artist contains over 200 reproductions of her finest paintings, with over 100 in museum-qualitycolour. A special section is devoted to her work as a printmaker. The book also provides an extensive bibliography, listing Granirer's artistic activities, her exhibitions, collections and commissions.

Well-known as a fine arts writer and consultant, Ted Lindberg was formerly the Associate Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery as well as the Director of the Charles H. Scott Gallery and the Burnaby Art Gallery.

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Born in Romania, Pnina Granirer studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, Israel. After some time spent in the USA, she came to Canada in1965 and has lived in Vancouver ever since. Granirer has shown her work locally, nationally and internationally. It may be found in numerous private, corporate and public collections. In 1989 she published the Trials of Eve, a book based on a series of works by the same name. It was later made into a film. In 1998 the artist had a 40 year retrospective at the Richmond Art Gallery and Pnina Granirer: Portrait of an Artist, a lavishly illustrated book by Ted Lindberg, was published by Ronsdale Press. In 1993, together with Anne Adams, Granirer initiated "Artists in our Midst," a successful annual community-oriented Open Studios Event in Vancouver, BC.

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