7 October, 2023

The Jewish Museum, New York recently presented the exhibition 7 October, 2023 featuring a powerful body of work by Ukrainian-born, Israeli-based artist Zoya Cherkassky. The exhibition was on view from December 15, 2023 – March 18, 2024.

The twelve works on paper that comprised the exhibited series were made in response to the harrowing events of the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks. Cherkassky started making these drawings about a week after the war began, when she left Israel with her young daughter, grabbing pencils, wax crayons, watercolors, and whatever supplies she could fit in her luggage. The resultant works are immediate, visceral, and gut-wrenching.

To commemorate this historical and deeply important body of work, Fort Gansevoort published a limited edition box set of archival pigment prints on Torchon paper. 

Each box contains 12 prints. The prints reproduce the imagery of the complete set of drawings that comprise Cherkassky’s 7 October 2023 drawing series.

The box set is an Edition of 100, with 2 Artist’s Proofs, 2 Printer’s Proofs, and 1 Hors d’Commerce Proof. The printing was done in Israel by the Print House. Each print is signed, titled, and numbered by the artist. The prints are housed in a custom black cloth-covered portfolio box with black foil stamped text on the spine and cover.

This is an incredibly tough body of work, but one that Cherkassky felt compelled to realize and share.