Cindy Shaoul - June 23 to July 28, 2022

Lilac Gallery New York is pleased to present “World Tour” an eclectic exhibition showcasing works by Cindy Shaoul from her Dripping Dots, My Heart, and Brides series. This show will be running from June 23 to July 28, 2022.

Shaoul’s “Dripping Dots” cascade down the canvas with colorful style and grace. The chunky dots are filled with life and set the viewer on a path to the dreamy locations their named after.

 Shaoul explained, “I am inspired by travel, people and the emotions we feel while we are away. I want to bring back those feelings into a piece and have the colors take you on a journey. When the painting is completed, I name the work after a destination which evokes a certain mood and nostalgia. From Monaco to Barcelona and the South of France, each painting’s unique voice vibrates with color, emotion and transcendental energy which brings us to these exotic places instantly.”

This abstract style started over a decade ago as Shaoul would clean her brushes and leftover paint from her pallet onto a new canvas, soon, the motion of cleaning turned into dots on the canvas. She began connecting the dots with linseed oil and this is how the motif of ‘dripping’ was imprinted. For her, it would become a freeing moment while painting abstractly after going to school and learning the impressionist technique. The experience of discovery with color and emotion in the brushwork became very cathartic, and felt familiar from the times she would collaborate with LA II.

Shaoul would continue to explore new themes in her work and in 2018 the ‘Brides’ series emerged, which balances her love for impressionism with an abstract hand. While exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, she would create a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. ‘Brides’ would give a new meaning of expression to her practice, and allowed nuances to emerge, demonstrating a whimsical expression of femininity and formality adding a stunning display of awe-inspiring grandeur to her work.

Later, in 2019 she began ‘Hearts’, an extension of her love for abstraction. In this collection, she would fuse a symbol into the abstract. First, she uses a pallet knife to slather thick and rich impasto oil paint directly onto the canvas. Creating worlds of color and rich textures, an exciting new technique that she would become fixated on, allowing the flow of oils to speak for themselves while loading up the pallet knife with several different colors at once. Uncovering how the different colors would interact with one another is what motivates Shaoul in this series. The wild and exotic forms of paint would then propel her to find the colors for the heart that layer on top with a thick brush over the mesmerizing colors. The hearts are then titled after fun themes like ‘candy’, ‘ice cream’, or more spiritual statements like ‘follow your heart’, and ‘free your heart’. The hearts would become a tribute to feelings of independence, childhood memories, and moments of love that inspire and excite.