MONTGOMERY, N.Y.—A powerful personal experience can be the impetus for powerful, personal art. Karen Gersch, circus performer, poet, visual artist, and Montgomery resident experienced first-hand that day in 2001 that some thought was the end of the world.
Gersch will exhibit paintings of her personal experience on 9/11 at the Orange County Firefighters Museum in Montgomery on Sept. 11 and 12.
Jim Ferguson, a 33-year veteran firefighter, one-time chief, and now fire commissioner, curated the exhibit. The show was important to him as a tribute to the the many firefighters who lost their lives in saving others.
A long-time resident of the East Village, Gersch found herself a witness to history on Sept. 11, 2001. She had been working for a prominent osteopathic physician on Wall Street, two blocks from the Twin Towers.
