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Art critic Rebecca Nemser (left) and gallery director Jillian Wertheim (right) discuss Jon Imber's life and work at 13FOREST Gallery's post-screening reception of Imber's Left Hand.

Art critic Rebecca Nemser (left) and gallery director Jillian Wertheim (right) discuss Jon Imber's life and work at 13FOREST Gallery's post-screening reception of Imber's Left Hand.

Rebecca Nemser on Jon Imber

November 8, 2016

Near the end of Imber’s Left Hand, the 2014 film about artist Jon Imber’s struggle to keep on painting as he was dying from ALS, there is a beautiful scene of a show of the hundreds of portraits that Jon painted, in the last year of his life, of friends in Boston and Maine who came by to keep him company and to help. Some of those friends, and others who had never met Jon, gathered together, teary-eyed, at 13FOREST Gallery after watching the Arlington International Film Festival’s screening of the film.

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Tags Jon Imber, Rebecca Nemser, Imber's Left Hand, Jill Hoy, Arlington International Film Festival, reception, Moderated Discussion, Richard Kane, Melody Lewis-Kane, Alpha Gallery

 
 

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