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Artist Statement -




"My concentration on the oval permits constant shifts in
imagery and composition. There are layers in these paintings that hint at worlds we do not see. They suggest "lifting
the veil" to reveal dimensions we cannot know. I want to
provoke a feeling of mystery for all who take the time to
look at the work and experience the forms. My current work is a concentration on form and color. I layer several colors and either allow the grain of the wood to be part of the compostion or cover the grain in a new texture to contrast with the underlying grain or conceal it completely"

Schomburg Gallery:
The work of Lillian Abel embodies a strange and compelling stasis where form is the subject. The simple line becomes its own language, the language of equanimity and proportion.

Abel's paintings suggest a controlled grace and formidable comprehension of color and composition. The works exist in the landscape of gesture and suggestiveness. Abel's obsession with the oval is that it is a unique and oddly inviolable shape. It becomes its own force in these paintings. Its placement on the canvas grips the picture plane and each work resolves into another variation on the theme. The experiment and exploration is unlimited.

The Oval in the vertical stance, in ancient symbology, 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.

Artist Exhibitions



To View Recent work shown: http://www.artslant.com/sf/artists/show/17950-lillian-abel

Graduate of Ohio University; attended the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Student's League of New York and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture. Attended the Santa Reparata Graphic Art Center in Florence, Italy. Exhibitions have been in New York, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Ca; Krakow, Poland; as well as numerous Galleries and Juried Exhibitions across the country.

2016

Suites, GROUNDSPACE PROJECTS, Susan Joseph, Los Angeles CA

5th Annual Spring Art Exhibition, Grand Central Neighborhood SSC, Curated by: Renee Larson, New York, New York

Lillian Abel, Nurit Avesnar, Elana Kundell, Art in the Arthouse, LAERMMLE MONICA FILM CENTER, Curated by Joshua Elias, Santa Monica CA

“MAS (Mutual Appreciation Society) Attack,” SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE, Curators; Max Presneill, Kio Griffith

2015

New Work by Lillian Abel and Robin Parsons, GROUNDSPACE PROJECTS, Los Angeles CA

2015 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, LAMAG, Jurors: Peter Frank, Fatemeh Burnes, Thomas Benitez

Water-Works, GALLERY C, Los Angeles CA

Generations: Forty Hues Between Black & White OCAAA, In colaboration with VAALA, Santa Ana CA

Incognito 2015, SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART

2014

Lillian Abel, January Garabedian, Brooke Harker, HALE ARTS SPACE, Curated by Michael Hale, Sean Hemeon, Santa Monica CA

Incognito 10, SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART

Habitual, LAAA, juried by Mills Moran, Director of OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Our Ever Changing World - Pop Up Show China Town, Curated by Karrie Ross, Los Angeles

2013

"Ink & Clay 39", KELLOGG ART GALLERY at California State Polytechnic University, Jurors: Michael David, Liza Folman, Stanton Hunter, Pomona CA Reception is on Saturday, September 21st from 3 to 6 pm

Curator Link: http://art.state.gov/artistdetail.aspx?id=166420
MetaHouse-German Cambodian Cultural Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
August 2-16, 2013
Traveling to Lotus Gallery Battambang, Cambodia

"Silver Factory" GET ART 2013, Project Angel Food, Siren Studios, Hollywood CA

Lillian Abel, Susan Feldman Tucker & Karrie Ross, ALTERED SPACE GALLERY, Venice CA

"Incognito 2013" SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART

International Women's Day Goup Show, curated by Larisa Pilinsky, West Hollywood City Building

Intersecting Paths: Art & Healing, HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JIR/LA, USC, Jack H. Skirball Campus, Los Angeles

2012

Electron Salon, LOS ANGELES CENTER FOR DIGITAL ART, Curator: Rex Bruce

�True Blue� SANGRIA FINE ART, Charity Burnett, Curator

LAAA Annual Benefit Auction 2012

�The Fan Show� sca project gallery, Curated by Karen Karlsson & Denise Kraemer, Pomona, California

Women's Day Virtual Display at MOLAA

"gem 2012" GALLERY 825, LAAA, Los Angeles

"Incognito 2012" SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART

"Colors, Colors!" CITY HALL BRIDGE GALLERY, Mary Oliver, Curator, DCA Slide Registry

"Sm�rgasbord", SANGRIA FINE ART, Chariy Burnet2012

Electron Salon, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Curator: Rex Bruce

�True Blue� SANGRIA FINE ART, Charity Burnett, Curator

LAAA Annual Benefit Auction 2012

�The Fan Show� sca project gallery, Curated by Karen Karlsson & Denise Kraemer, Pomona, California

Women's Day Virtual Display at MOLAA

"gem 2012" GALLERY 825, LAAA, Los Angeles

"Incognito 2012" SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART

"Colors, Colors!" CITY HALL BRIDGE GALLERY, Mary Oliver, Curator, DCA Slide Registry

"Sm�rgasbord", SANGRIA FINE ART, Chariy Burnett, Curator

2011

"Energy" Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Howard Fox

LAAA Annual Benefit Auction 2011

KCET-TV Los Angeles will air HUMBLE BEAUTY on primetime, 8 pm July 12. KCET is the largest, independent public TV station in America. kcet.org Watch for this Documentary to be aired again on KCET

"Second Annual Art Project Los Angeles: BONHAMS & BUTTERFIELDS Star-Studded VIP Benefit"

"Incognito 2011" Santa Monica Museum of Art

"Celebrating a Decade" 2nd City Council Art Gallery, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Curator: shea M gauer

"gem 2011" GALLERY 825, LAAA, Los Angeles

"Silver Lining: Every Cloud Has One" City of Santa Clarita Art in Public Places Program

GET : ART 4, Project Angel Food, Siren Studios, Hollywood CA

2010

"Aurora" 2010, LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION

2010 Annual Benefit Auction, LAAA

"gem" 2010 GALLERY 825, LAAA, Los Angeles

"Edges" GARLAND ART GALLERY, Pasadena CA



2009
"Aurora" Works on Paper, LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION

2009 Open Show, LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION, Apsara DiQuinzio, Assistant Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

PLENTY: Happy�s first annual small works show, HAPPY, Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles Art Association Annul Benefit Auction

"gem" GALLERY 825, LAAA, Los Angeles April 11th 2009

"Insight/Inside LA" Exhibit, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery at MOUNT ST. MARY'S COLLEGE Curator: Jode Baral

"Humble Beauty Art Exhibition" KIWA CULTURAL EDUCATION CENTER, Los Angeles, Curator Lillian Abel

2008
"Aurora" Small Works Sale and Fundraiser, Los Angeles Art Association,

TarFest Art Show 2008, Juried by Howard Fox, KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER, Los Angeles - Opening, October 3, 2008 6 pm

Humble Beauty Art Show, Curator: Lillian Abel at 'The NEW LATC', presented along with the Premeire of the "Humble Beauty" Documentary, by Letitia Schwartz & Judith Vogelsang.

"Different and Coexist" - 1st U.S.A., Korea, Japan International Art Festival, Curators U.S.A.: Gina Han and Gustav Yim, International Curator: Tae Hun Seong, Asto Museum of Art, Wrightwood, CA - OPENING July 5th.

"Hokum", Things and materials are not always what they seem" cleverness, deceit and the unexpected in contemporary art; GALLERY 825, Laurie Firstenberg, Dir./Curator LAXART

"gem" GALLERY 825, LAAA, Los Angeles

2007
LAAA/Gallery 825's Southern California Open 2007, Howard N. Fox, Curator of Contemporary Art at LACMA

"Aurora", Los Angeles Art Assocaition Annual Holiday Group Show and Celebration

"Get : Art" BONHAMS & BUTTERFIELDS, Benefitting Project
Angel Food, Los Angeles, CA

"2007 Winter Biannual", LAAA SOUTH, The Mike Napoliello Gallery, Juried by Susan Cross, Curator MASS MoCA, Hermosa Beach, CA

2006
"Perspectives", BARNSDALL MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY, Curators: Scott Canty and Mary E. Oliver, Los Angeles CA
OPENING: Sunday, December 17, 2-5pm: music by Ranelin Jazz Ensemble.
http://artscenecal.com/Barnsdall.html

"Petite Works" LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION, GALLERY 825, Los Angeles

"The 2nd Annual Fine Art Auction", LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION, Music Box Theater, Hollywood, CA

"Of This World", LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION, GALLERY 825, Juror: Laurie Steelink, Director, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"Chain Letter" HIGH ENERGY CONSTRUCTS, Curated by Doug Harvey & Christian
Cummings, Los Angeles, CA

"An Evening of Art and Architecture" LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION, live art auction and architectural tour of AIA award winning home/gallery of Michael Collins and Daniel Banchik, West Hollywood, California

"Saturation and Surface" GALLERY 825, Juror: Nancy Silverman-Miles, Executive Director, Gallery C, Los Angeles, CA

"Get : Art" BONHAMS & BUTTERFIELDS, Benefitting Project Angel Food, Los Angeles, CA

"Eleventh Annual Los Angeles Art Show - Five Centuries of Art", Fine Art Dealers Association, Santa Monica, CA

2005
"Looking at Art" BARNSDALL MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY, City of Los Angeles World Airports -- LAX and Ontario Airports, Curated by Scott Canty

"Small Wonders" PHARMAKA GALLERY, Los Angeles CA

"Petite Works III" GALLERY 825 ANNEX at Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica CA

"17th Annual Awards Benefit and Exhibition," LA ARTCORE, Los Angeles

"Angels Night" Benefit Auction, CENTER THEATRE GROUP AFFILIATES, Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, CA

2004
"10th Annual Holiday Group Show", RUTH BACHOFNER GALLERY, Santa Monica, California

BARNSDALL MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY, "Silent Auction" Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA

"Square Blue Benefit" Square Blue Gallery, Curated by Jamie Wilson, Costa Mesa

Public Art Installation -- Hawthorne Police Department, Hawthorne, CA

"Out of Darkness" PICO RIVERA CENTRE FOR THE ARTS, Curator: Georgia Feedman-Harvey, Pico Rivera, Ca

2003
"9th Annual Holiday Group Show", RUTH BACHOFNER GALLERY, Santa Monica, California

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, RENTAL AND SALES GALLERY, Los Angeles

ANGELS NIGHT Benefit Auction, Beverly Hills, CA

"Lillian Abel, Marla Fields, Ginette Mizraki", LA ARTCORE BREWERY ANNEX, Los Angeles

"skid row artists, reason for existence" (curated by Lillian Abel), LA ARTCORE BREWERY ANNEX, Los Angeles

2002
"Winter Solstice", SCHOMBURG GALLERY, Santa Monica, California



"8th Annual Holiday Group Show", RUTH BACHOFNER GALLERY, Santa Monica, California

"Ethereal Forms - Lillian Abel" Schomburg Gallery, Santa Monica, California

"Minds Island 1st Annual Juried Art Show" Galleries of Pen & Brush Club, New York City, 2001

2001
"Barnsdall Art Park Targets: Art Crawl 4", BARNSDALL MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY, Curated by Michael L. Miller, Los Angeles

"46th Exhibition" ART SHARE LOS ANGELES, Los Angeles, CA

"44th Exhibition" ART SHARE LOS ANGELES, Los Angeles, CA

2000
"Przestrzenie metafizyczne - Lillian Abel" Galerii Temporary Contemporary "Krakow 2000" Krakow, Poland

"Competition Exhibition 2000, SAN LUIS OBISPO ART CENTER, San Luis Obispo, CA Juror: Elizabeth Gerber, Crocker Art Museum

"Made in California", CITY OF BREA GALLERY/Juried Invitational Exhibition, Juror Martin Betz

1999
"43rd Annual International Awarded Exhibition" SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE Juror: Howard N. Fox, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

"National Juried Exhibition of Small Works" MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, Juror: June Kelly, Art Critic/June Kelly Art Gallery, NYC


CAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION National Show. Cambridge, MA/FEDERAL RESERVE BANK GALLERY, Boston, MA/Jurors: Peter Rathbone (Director,American Painting & Sculpture/Sotheby"s, N.Y.), Eliza Rathbone (Chief Curator, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.), Belinda Rathbone(Historian, Curator and Biographer)

1998
"Imaging the Figure", Five Artist Group Show JOSE DRUDIS -BIADA ART GALLERY, MOUNT ST. MARY'S COLLEGE Curator: Jode Baral

"Bodies and Vessels", VSA ART GALLERY WEST, Five Artist Group Show,Beverly Hills, CA

"Gallery 825 1998 Open" GALLERY 825, Los Angeles
Juror: Gronk; Cash Award Recipient

"California Small Works" CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF ART, Santa Rosa, CA Juror: Deborah Oropallo

"Allusion or Illusion"" WEBSTER GALLERY, Santa Ana, CA Juror: Bob Alderette

"Rockies to the Pacific" SITE GALLERY, Los Angeles
Jurors: Llyn Foulkes and Roland Riess

"Annual September Exhibition" ALEXANDREA MUSEUM OF ART, Alexandria, Louisiana, Juror: Dr. Jerry Cullum

"Annual California Competition" SANCHEZ ART CENTER, Pacifica, CA Jurors: Peter Frank, David Bonetti, Catherine Clark

"Wallworks" LA ARTCORE GALLERY, Juror: Noel Korten Award: Third Place

1997
"Made In California" CITY OF BREA GALLERY/Juried and Invitational Exhibition, Juror: Noel Korten

SUMITOMO BANK BUILDING, 800 Wilshire, curated Installation: Jillian Coldiron

1996
"First Annual Juried Exhibition" ARTERNATIVES GALLERY, San Luis Obispo, CA Juror: Noel Korten

"Art Quake" Curated by Spring Street Gallery and SRO HOUSING CORPORATION Los Angeles

CB BUILDING and 500 NORTH BRAND BUILDING, Glendale, CA Curated Installation: Jillian Coldiron

1995
"Small Works" LYNBASSETT GALLERY, Group Show - Los Angeles

"Art From California" GALLERIA ART CENTER, Garnett, Kansas Curated by Rachele Lozzi

"To Be Gifted" RACHELELOZZI GALLERY, Four Artist Group Show Los Angeles

1994
"Images: The Color and Shape of Form" RACHELELOZZI GALLERY,Four Artist Group Show,Los Angeles
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PUBLICATIONS

Eleventh Annual Los Angeles Art Show - Five Centuries of Art, Exhibition Catalog, p. 117
(Santa Monica, CA, 2006)

MAC 21
Feria Internacional De Arte Contemporaneo (Marbella, Spain, 2002)

Architecture & Business, December 2000 (Krakow, Poland)

Invited to publish in "California Artists Directory", October 1998

Alexandria Museum of Art, 1998 September Exhibition Catalog




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Artist Publications



skid row artists, reason for existence, curated by lillian abel

Reception June 1, Sunday, 1 to 3 pm

Featured in LA Times Weekend Calendar, "Streetwise art from skid row", by Susan Carpenter, May 29, 2003

http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk ungallery29may29,0,7399053.story?coll=cl%2Dart%2Dfeatures

June 1-29, 2003 LA Artcore Brewery Annex 650A South Avenue 21, Los Angeles, CA 90031 323-276-9320 www.laartcore.org

Spirit and Matter

On October 4th an exhibition opened at the Temporary Contemporary gallery in Krakow, featuring the paintings of the American artist Lillian Abel.

The artist lives and works in California, and studied, among other places, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions, and has won a number of awards. She also works as a coordinator of art workshops for a charitable foundation. The owners of the gallery, Anna and Jerzy Feiner, met Lillian Abel when they were visiting art studios located in the loft district of the industrial complexes in Los Angeles. They invited the artist to exhibit her work in Temporary Contemporary, regarding her creative works as very much in line with the "climate" of the gallery.

In his commentary to the exhibition, Jerzy Feiner stressed the metaphysical character of Lillian Abel's paintings, referring to them outright as religious works. In actual fact, we can discern in these works an attempt to "peek into another dimension", especially so because of the artist's use of light, which in one painting, for example, penetrates a dark background veil to outline the bright contour of a mysterious, winged form. Because of the title of this work "Trinity", it inevitably conjures up images of the Holy Spirit, but - as was joked about at the Opening - it may be associated with one of the angels watching over the artist's home city of Los Angeles. Transcendental and religious references and associations abound in Abel's works, but some of her frequently used motifs also bring to mind more terrestrial though still unfathomable phenomena. Individual points and circles and clusters of such elements are often used by the artist as the only features in a composition set against a semi-transparent background, thereby recalling the images we sometimes find under a microscope, images of microbes or our own cells, which stand so close to us like a proverbial body shirt, closer often than abstract, transcendental concepts, and yet equally mysterious and hidden from view in our everyday lives. This impression is enhanced by the texture of the wood, well visible in many paintings against a white background, which invites us, as it were, to take an analytical look at the structure of a natural substance closest to us. Perhaps Lillian Abel is thus examining us from two opposing, but equally important, and fascinating perspectives. She shows us echoes of worlds that we essentially do not know; a forgotten existence, but without them we would have no spirituality nor microbiological cosmos. These works assume new meanings when viewed together, when combined together in certain cycles and mutually complementing one another. The neutrality of the gallery's interior design also allows the viewer to concentrate on the vivid, clear colors contained in these paintings.
- Katarzyna Zaluska
Duch i materia
Architektura & Biznes (Architecture & Business - Krakow, Poland December 2000)
12 2000
Article translanted by Argos Company Ltd.
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Charity Burnett, Lake Balboa, CA
Davyd Whaley and Norman Buckley, Los Angeles
Barry Zito, San Diego
Bob Crewe, Los Angeles CA
Elinor Turner, Beverly Hills CA
Xorin Balbes, Sowden House, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Lussier Company, Hollywood, CA
Susan Camiel, The Bond House, San Diego, CA
Ellie Blankfort, Los Angeles, CA
The Walker Art Collection, Garnett, Kansas
SRO Housing Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Lawry Smith, Director, La MaMa Galleria, New York NY
Elizabeth Hastings Peterfreund, NY, NY
Margaret Thomsen/Thomsen Gallery/Tappan NY
Merrill G. & Emita E. Hastings Foundation, New York NY
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Artist Favorites



Personal Favorites



http://Intersecting Paths: Art & Healing
http://lillianabel.com
http://www.artslant.com/sf/artists/show/17950-lillian-abel
http://artscenecal.com/Barnsdall.html
http://www.humblebeauty.com/mentors.html
http://www.rpgcreates.com/lamag.html
http://www.artrom.com/artrom_gallery/artA01/gallery4.htm
http://www.laaa.org/index.html
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-wk-ungallery29may29,0,7399053.story?coll=cl%2Dart%2Dfeatures
http://www.laartcore.org
http://home.earthlink.net/~lenlil/lillianabel
http://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/AbelL/LAbel.html
http://www.schomburggallery.com/ex_ethereal.htm
http://www.schomburggallery.com
http://artscenecal.com/RBachofner.html
http://www.wf-a.si/spring_award/index_7.htm
http://santafeartcolony.com
http://www.mac21.com/art-e-mail/ (after entering ths link, click on Seleccionados 2002) ----------------------
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http://www.wpkn.org/wpkn/news/lastrefuge.html
http://www.srohousing.org
http://isdesignet.com/Magazine/J_F'01/Cover.html (Bond House, Richard Neutra, San Diego, CA)
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