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
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