Mil Lubroth, Mil Lubroth Mixed Media Oil Painting Contemporary Female Abstract Expressionist

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Mil Lubroth lived in New York, France, Oil on board Abstract expressionist Tree's in greens and purples Provenance: Gallery Bique, … Read more Mil Lubroth lived in New York, France, Oil on board Abstract expressionist Tree's in greens and purples Provenance: Gallery Bique, Madrid. bears label verso Dimensions: Frame Size 7" x 15" board about 6 X 14 inches. Mildred Lubroth (1926-2004) was an American born artist who until her passing lived and worked in Madrid, Spain. Her colorful, semi-abstract paintings, which often combined Jewish, Arab and Christian symbolism, were described as “light and music, subtlety and suggestion, full of energy and joy” by Catherine Coleman, curator at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. Her annual open studio, held every November, was an important celebration of the Spanish art scene. Mil Lubroth started life as Millie Schleifer, star pupil at New York's Laguardia High School of Music and Art. After obtaining a B.A. from Southern Cal, an M.A. from Kansas State, and studying with de Kooning and Albers at Black Mountain College, she became a Fulbright Scholar destined for Vienna. "Once I landed in Europe," says the artist, "I knew I was home. My parents were Polish and Russian, so the East-West blend in Vienna felt right for me." Afterward, she joined her husband for a year in Paris, before transferring with him to Madrid in 1955. She felt drawn to the East-West blend. "Scratch the surface in Spain," she explains, "and you still find a Jewish-Arab culture beneath the Western one with its Catholic rituals." Lubroth's success in this country can be attributed to her deft weaving of Jewish, Islamic and Western imagery with an openness that can only be described as American. Among influences, she names Paul Klee, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and RB Kitaj, and most importantly, one Mr. Blumstein, the high-school art teacher who still attends every show Lubroth has in New York. When cultures mix, they create an in-between world that defies definition. This is the world Lubroth lives in and the world her works depict. For example, her painting Mona Lisa's Daughter captures the spirit of the original Giaconda yet gives her imagined offspring a vivid life and an utterly international look, part Arab, part Flemish and Italian. Lubroth's 1987 solo show titled "Thirty Years in Spain." featured the image of a vertical Oriental carpet both shields and reveals a dark space enclosed by deep-blue Islamic arches. The center pattern of the carpet also turns the arches into a chalice that receives light pouring from above -- or is the light issuing from the chalice at the center of the carpet inside the mosque? Is it a mosque? This intentional ambiguity is why Lubroth says, "You have to give my paintings time. They don't hit you between the eyes right away." Oh, but they often do -- Lubroth's skilled use of colors, bright splashing against dark, is welcome to those who wish fireworks could stay in the sky an hour or two. Her Memories of Lost Loves with Its East Indian red background, with faint images of Roman arches and half-hidden twin flowers produce a subtle effect not unlike the patterning found in 16th-century Catalán painting. The pictorial weaving of this American creates what may be the single most inclusive artistic representation of the influences that still live and breathe beneath the surface of contemporary Spain. She was the first North American to exhibit at the prestigious Ateneo Cultural Center in Madrid and has since shown her work steadily in Madrid, Seville, Granada, Barcelona, Burgos and other Spanish and European cities. Lubroth recently had a solo show at Artopia in New York, has work in the Fullbright Show in Washington, D.C.'s Meridian International Center (through Oct. 21), and will contribute ten paintings to a show focused on the Alhambra in Dubai, U.A.E., in November. Gallery representation includes Madrid's Torculo Gallery and Zyw Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. The richly layered culture of Spain inspired her to weave together Jewish, Islamic and Western influences in her decorative and often mysterious work. She was the first North American Woman to exhibit at Madrid’s Cultural Center and her work also showed in Seville, Granada, Barcelona and New York. Education La Guardia High School of Art and Music, New York B.A., Southern Cal M.A. Kansas State Advanced Studies under Willem De Kooning and Josef Albers at Black Mountain College, North Carolina She was included in the show Findings: Works from the Spanish Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Macedonia (F.Y.R.M.) Artists on show: Angel Duarte, Doroteo Arnáiz, Isabel Pons, Joan Rabascall, Manolo Millares, Mildred Lubroth, Pablo Picasso, Rafael Canogar. Collections Smithsonian, UNESCO New York. The White House, Washington DC. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid y Castellón. Museo of Skopje. Macedonia. Yugoslavia. Johnson & Johnson, Madrid. Baker and McKenzie. Banco de España. Madrid. Radio RVE, Sydney, Australia. Comisión del Deporte en Bellas Artes. Madrid. Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Corporate Art Collection Juffali Brothers, Jedda, Arabia Saudí Arab banking Corporation, New York. Hebrew Union College, New York. Embajada de los EEUU, Israel y Kuwait en Madrid. Pórtland Art Museum, Oregón. Colección del Patrimonio Nacional de Su Majestad la Reina Sofía. Asociación de Amigos del Museo Sefardí. Toledo. Instituto Hamburgo, México D.F. Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San fernando. Madrid. Warsaw Historical Museum. Polonia. Embajada de Jordania, Madrid. Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. “Grabado Contemporáneo” Museo Postal ty Telegráfico, Madrid. Colección Grupo Larios de España. Arab Bank PLC, España. Embajada de EEUU Solo Exhibitions Madrid: Ateneo, Galeria Juana Mordó, Galeria Vandres, Galeria Lorca, Galeria Osmo, Centro Washington Irving, Galeria Tórculo. Annta Gallery Sevilla: Club de la Rábida, la Pasarela. Portugal: Casino de Estéril, Galeria San Fernando. Florida: Gloria Luria Gallery. Holanda: Susquehanna Gallery, Philips Museum. Hong Kong: Asia Art Gallery. Hawaii: Walden Gallery. New York: Rizzoli Gallery, Trump Tower, Artopia 57th street Gallery. Polonia: Dom stuki, Forum Gallery, Galeria Sztuki Suiza: Galerie Pensa. Sur Africa: “A stranger in a strange Land”, University of Pretoria See less