"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

Kahlil Gibran

These compositions suggest forms that are present and forms that are absent. Layers that hide and reveal each other just as time is laid out in our psyche. Out of disorder comes order, out of  darkness comes light, from ignorance to enlightenment.

Graduate of Ohio University, attended ther Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students 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 Gallerys and Exhibiitons across the country.

2009

Los Angeles Art Association Annul Benefit Auction

"gem" GALLERY 825, LAAA, Los Angeles  April 11th 2009      http://laaaorg.nationprotect.net./calendar/gem.html

"Insight/Inside LA" Exhibit, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery at Mount Saint Mary’s College Curator: Jode Baral.

"Humble Beauty Art Exhibition" KIWA Cultural Education Center, Los Angeles, Curator

2008

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

"TarFest Art Show 2008",  Juried  by Howard Fox, KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER, Los Angeles

"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.

1st U.S.A., Korea, Japan International Art Festival - "Different and Coexist", Curators U.S.A.: Gina Han and Gustav Yim, International Curator: Tae Hun Seong, ASTO MUSEUM OF ART, Wrightwood, CA

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

2007

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

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

"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

"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

Los Angeles Art Association, 2009 Catalog, Sammy Hoi, Juror

Art In Southern California (2009, Project Concept and Coordinator Irina D. Costache, Ph.D., Professor of Art History) "Insight/Inside LA" Exhibit, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery at Mount Saint Mary’s College Curator: Jode Baral, CD Catalog

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