ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 92

ICUL CTION C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t meets Lillian Abel R e v i e w Special Issue Lillian Abel An interview by Josh Ryder, curator and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator [email protected] Artist Lillian Abel's practice accomplishes an insightful exploration of the liminal area in which abstraction and representation find a consistent point of convergence. In her works that we'll be discussing in the following pages, she starts her imquiry into Nature to communicate draw the viewers through an unconventional journey on the limits between the tangible and the imagined. One of the most impressive aspects of Abel's work is her successful attempt to blend memory, impulse and emotion into an effective combination to trigger the viewers' most limbic parameters: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating and multifaceted artistic production. Hello Lillian and welcome to ARTiculAction: we would start this interview with a couple of questions about rich and multifaceted background. You have a solid training and after having graduated from the Ohio University you nurtured your education attending, among the others, the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago and the Santa Reparata Graphic Art Center in Florence: how do these experiences influence the way you conceive and produce your works? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform 18