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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2002 Lillian Abel "Ethereal Forms" May 11 - June 3, 2002 Opening reception: May 11, 4-7 PM Schomburg Gallery is pleased to announce "Ethereal Forms," an exhibition of works by Lillian Abel. The work of Lillian Abel embodies a strange and compelling stasis where form is the subject. The simple line becomes its own metonymic language, the language of equanimity and proportion. Abel's paintings suggest a controlled grace and formidable comprehension of color, line and composition. The works exist in the unmitigated landscape of gesture and suggestiveness. Abel's consummate obsession with the oval as a unique and oddly inviolable shape, becomes its own force in these paintings. Its placement on the canvas grips the picture plane and each work resolves into another variation on a theme. In the vertical stance, as in ancient symbology, the oval represents feminine power. When shown horizontally, the oval represents the eye of wisdom. Abel expands on this iconology and empowers the oval as a singular shape, endowing it with an almost archetypal capacity for change and contemplation. If there is a consistency in Abel's work, it is the resolution of her images into a tranquil and unified space. A graduate of Ohio University with post graduate work at The Art Institute of Chicago and the New York School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Abel has exhibited at Ruth Bachofner Gallery, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, San Diego Art Institute, and The Galerii Temporary Contemporary in Krakow, Poland.
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