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In the biblical book named after her, Esther is a young Jewish woman living in the Persian diaspora who finds favor with the king, becomes queen, and risks her life to save the Jewish people from destruction
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Lilian Broca is graduated from Concordia University in Montreal with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1968 and with a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Pratt Institute in New York, in 1971. For thirteen years she was a Fine Arts Faculty member at Kwantlen College where she taught studio courses in Painting and Drawing. Her work is included in important private and public collections around the world. In 2002 Broca, began working on a new series on the biblical Queen Esther, a body of work executed in Venetian glass mosaics. A year later she was invited to participate in the prestigious 2003 Florence Biennale International Exhibition in Italy. There, her mosaics won the Lorenzo il Magnifico gold medal in the Mixed Media category. In the Beneath the Surface Exhibition, at High Risk Gallery in Chicago IL., in 2006, Broca won First Prize with her Queen Esther and Mordechai in the two dimensional category. In 2007 The entire solo show The Queen Esther Series, at The J.D. Carrier Art Gallery in Toronto Canada, was sold to a private collector.
Text & pictures:Internet All copyrights belong to their respective owners Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda https://ma-planete.com/michaelasanda Sound: Sumi Jo - Mélodies hébraïques (2): no 1, Kaddisch by Maurice Ravel 2011