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• Deborah Bigeleisen's elegantly deceptive flower paintings hover on the cusp between abstraction and representation, with different series leaning more to one than to the other, that nonetheless all take as their common denominator or point of origin the inherent non-objectivity of nature itself when explored as pure design or even mathematics, removed from our preconception of the image as a flower, or closely cropped petals. That we are left able to recognize these images as such is a tantalizing way to seduce the viewer into myriad complexities that themselves slowly unfold as do the petals from which they draw their inspiration. Light in contrast to velvety darks is Bigeleisen's pollen, enticing the viewer ever deeper into her condensed spaces, beyond the open, luminous folds into the mysterious, darkened interiors as an insect might be lured, or as one might tentatively Rated 5.0 out of 5.