to other work). The forms are hazy, out of focus and rectilinear which on many levels counters the large scale landscape that other work references.  Li is one of those artists who are able to cover a wide territory without losing a grip on a very strong sense style or giving herself up to serializing the work.

Ying Li, the Painting Center

Ying Li, the Painting Center

Li shares the gallery with Janet Culp but rather then offering a traditional presentation where each is allocated a separate portion, this show is remarkable for mixing them together throughout the space.  Although Culp’s work is more straight-forward landscape painting (see Noteworthy Abstraction on the next page) the combination nevertheless works quite well.  Visually their work is explicitly united by the subject matter. In addition to this both artists are tied together by their mutual, though distinct, approaches to color and paint handling. But in the end, Li is distinguished by the way she is able to continually and successfully walk that thin line between abstraction and figuration.