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Michoel Muchnik, a Lubavitch Chasid and artist, adds some color to one of his paintings.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Michoel Muchnik's new gallery in the ground floor of his Brooklyn, N.Y., home resembles the interior of one of the Jerusalem stone houses from one of his many colorful landscape paintings. While the walls are at first close together, you descend a few stone steps and around a circular shape carved into the floor before entering the main gallery. Its rooms are small and intimate; the paintings compete for your attention.

Chasidic Artist Keeps it Lyrical and Spiritual

Sara Trappler-Spielman – Chabad.org

Michoel Muchnik, a Lubavitch Chasid and artist, adds some color to one of his paintings.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Michoel Muchnik’s new gallery in the ground floor of his Brooklyn, N.Y., home resembles the interior of one of the Jerusalem stone houses from one of his many colorful landscape paintings. While the walls are at first close together, you descend a few stone steps and around a circular shape carved into the floor before entering the main gallery. Its rooms are small and intimate; the paintings compete for your attention.

The walls offer alluring and bright images of Jewish life in general and of Chasidic life in particular; some of the available space is adorned with antique jewelry, mosaics and enchanted objects that Muchnik has collected and then reinvented in his art.

The artist hopes that his gallery, which opened just after the Hebrew month of Tishrei at 1406 Carroll Street in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section, will be a place not only for admirers to purchase his art, but where “people can come and enjoy the atmosphere.”

“It can be a quiet escape from the harried lifestyle of the city,” says Muchnik.

Many tour groups visiting the Chabad-Lubavitch enclave east of Prospect Park stop at the gallery. Muchnik officially requires appointments, but keeps his doors open for all.

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