FRAMED IMPASTO OIL-ON-BOARD ABSTRACT PAINTING (1980s) REFUND Under his guidance

Under his guidance

her work’s objective is to make evident—and to play with—the potentialities of surface art

Sent to live in Chicago at fifteen in 1924—near the tail-end of the mass migration of Eastern European Jews to the US—she worked long hours in the garment industry during the day and took night classes in painting and sculpture at the local Jewish People’s Institute

but it was a reciprocal inspiration

FRAMED IMPASTO OIL-ON-BOARD ABSTRACT PAINTING (1980s) REFUND Under his guidanceA heavily textured abstract, with a mid century aesthetic, executed in oil on a 2' 2' square of Masonite. The surface is reticulated with remarkably stringy ridges of impasto, into irregularly squared and rounded scales that recall polished crocodile leatherand, in turn, that materials vaunted opulence. Two olive drab bubbles are shaded with milky ochre, and scattered dashes of carnelian spell out a counterpoint across the bottom of the canvas. This