Janet Sobel: Between Figure and Ground

Lower Gallery
October 9 - November 20, 2025

Exhibition Catalogue

“Abstraction is not the goal here but emerges as a byproduct of the complicated interconnection between figure and ground, line and form. Sobel’s strength is in merging these moments—another kind of all-overness.”

Sandra Zalman

“Where Sobel is at her best is when figuration and abstraction rub together like tectonic plates, retaining a palpable visual tension but never allowing for an earthquake to happen.”

William Davie

“Sobel’s work falls outside the chain of artistic inheritance; it is too original.”

Natilee Harren