Untitled, Abstraction

LILLY FENICHEL, 1927-2016

Fenichel's paintings done in New Mexico range from hard-edged geometric abstractions of the 1980s to sensual, lyrical studies of organic forms from the early 2000s; both show the influence of color field painting and kinship with the work of artists such as Helen Frankenthaler. One critic wrote that "all of Lilly Fenichel's paintings are related to nature, even when they are abstract to the point of being non-objective."