SIGMUND ABELES
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2nd China (Suzhou) Biennial International Pastel Exhibition
Ming Gallery of Art, Suzhou City, China
October 22 – November 22, 2016
Traveling throughout China, 2016 – 2017
Artist's Statement of Selected Work Shown:
All of my art is focused upon the human figure. The breath and scope of my imagery sets out to capture moments from birth to death. (I drew both my parents on their deathbeds and my premature son from the incubator to health.) I think of myself as a “life-artist”. Looking back at decades of my pictures, I am grateful for those encounters that “freeze framed” special moments otherwise lost to the passing of time. Drawing, demanding intense observation, informs all my art. After my initial trip to China five years ago, I employed Kuan one day a week for almost a year and completed fourteen works. This pastel is Kuan with Water in Wine Glass, Face of China Series, #1.
Sigmund Abeles
Carolina Roots: Selected Works by Sigmund Abeles and Grainger McKoy
Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, SC
May – July 26, 2015
Military Veterans at the Art Students League of New York
Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery
Art Students League of New York, 215 W 57th St. New York, NY
June 19 – July 29, 2015
The Depth of The Surface, 189th Annual Exhibition
National Academy Museum
1083 5th Ave. New York, NY
June 4 – August 23, 2015
The Way of Flesh Part II
Mt. San Antonio College of Art Gallery
1100 North Grand Ave., Walnut, CA
September 18 – October 16, 2014
Sigmund Abeles: Pastels
Greenville County Museum of Art
420 College St., Greenville SC
April 26 – June 15, 2014