“HIGH FREQUENCY: Kinetic Abstract Interconnectivity” Exhibition

Lichtundfire

[Image: Francie Lyshak "Streaming Blue" (2014) Oil on linen 34 x 44 in.]

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“Lichtundfire presents and welcomes all to the Opening of the New Gallery Season and the Reception for HIGH FREQUENCY during Armory Show Fair Week in New York City.
This exhibition in various media, painting, sculpture and works on paper, addresses the concept of kinetic interconnectivity while focussing on abstraction from minimalism to abstract expressionism. The work in this exhibition, though distinctly different in execution, exemplifies the wide ranging possibilities of visual communication bound by ‘long distance’ interconnections; or in other words - here, the artists connect, in lieu of ‘flat out’ directly, via the various works in the exhibition and via its provided conceptual platform of a further reaching, greater abstract interconnectivity.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” New York painter Francie Lyshak cites Socrates’s irreducible maxim as an idea common to every phase of her extensive and affecting body of work. Often turning her focus inward to stare down and pick apart a lifetime of personal experience—some of it highly traumatic—she offers viewers a cascade of stories and spaces into which they can immerse themselves spiritually and emotionally as well as visually. Drawing on a training and professional career in art therapy, Lyshak wields her knowledge of painting as a tool for surveying the landscapes of mind and heart…Dispensing with identifiable narrative and symbolism, she conjures moods and atmospheres that prompt a meditative gaze, a calm, mindful—and hard-won—form of looking.

—Michael Wilson