Liliana Life's Web Page New York Times Inspirations for a Time of Renewal Fred B. Adelson "...May You Be inscribed..."at the Katz Jewish Community Center here is a group exhibiton celebrating the Jewish New Year and its themes of renewal and redemption. Fran Gakybm unvuted Hank Gerber, Liliana Life, Sheba Sharrow, Betsy Platkin Teutsch and Deborrah Gross Zuchman to join her in this show honoring the High Holy Days. "...Ms. Life's caligraphic strokes of paint are not meant to be textual but rather are gestural applications of gray pigment to suggest angels." "...this installation is extremely well done. With an exhibiton like "May You Be Inscribed..." the Appel Art Gallery is moving toward a commendable level of professionalism." - September 27,1998 Courier Post "May You Be Inscribed..."A celebration of the Jewish New Year Robert Baxter "Liliana Life of Cherry Hill celebrates the memory of an Italian child, also named Liliana, in a trio of acrylic and oil works streaked with the brilliant colors of the rainbow surrounded by delicate angel wings and lace. "The exhibit gives the community an insight into how artists work with Jewish texts and themes,..." "Life says she discovered the theme for her three works when she was surfing the Internet and discovered the name of Liliana Fano, an Italian girl who perished in the Holocaust. She wistfully recalls how her own first name comes from a childless Italian woman who dreamed of having a daughter named Liliana. "Here are the rainbows that little girls never lived to see," she explains." "Life's large paintings add some vivid colors to the exhibit." - September 13,1998 Courier Post Liliana's Mysticism & Rainbows Dan Collinelli "Liliana has been winning awards for and exhibiting her art in two continents since 1971." "Liliana likes to add romantic characteristics to her works through the use of colors and symbols." "Liliana's Pantheon of conceptual mysticism reflects universal mental images." "Her interest in mysticism, rituals and symbols comes as no surprise." Buenos Aires Herald She paints as she dances On Liliana's exhibit at the Academia Nacional del Tango, next to the Café Tortoni on Avenida de mayo. Julian Cooper "For her dancing Tango has a strong connection with painting. She paints as she dances." "When she paints and the brush sways over the canvas, she feels she is dancing, though now it is she who leads. With each brushstroke she is responding to brushstrokes already registered on the canvas. When she paints (if we continue the dance analogy) she plays the masculine role and likes to give her canvas partner a feminine look. She likes the onlooker to feel "this is a painting by a woman." And so, on her canvases, she often paints a feminine symbol, a strip of lace, perhaps, along with a rainbow. And yes, when you look at her canvases, even if no one told you who had painted them, you could tell a women did." "Overall, what interested me most about Liliana Life was not so much her paintings as her." "What interested me was a perceptiveness unusual in anyone, artist or not. She had phoned at the last moment to switch our meeting to the Ideal. "I looked at the paper with your phone number," she said later, "and thought: 'It might suit him to go there.'" And sure enough, I picked up a necessary publication on the way." "What Liliana Life has transcends painting. It is contained in her significant, self adopted, all embracing acronym of name." Buenos Aires Herald, April '98 The lighter side of tango Victoria Greenhalgh "The faces of two people dancing tango is a spellbinding spectacle,..." However, what occurs inside the minds of the dancing duo is much more fantastical and this is portrayed in the work of Liliana Life which is currently on display at the National Academy of Tango..." "This centre of tango life is a fitting place for the paintings, which depict the beauty of the steps which have hallmarked Argentina." "I like to work with the colours of the rainbow," she explains: "I want to explore the inner world of tango and the result is this exhibition." The mixed technique paintings almost glow with the delicate use of colour, reflecting this woman's passion for the art of tango. As though to highlight the nocturnal nature of the tango halls, each piece is dominated by a half moon." "The precise golden figure of the dancing pair, stands out from the dreamlike background of each work. Most show the couple together, but a few show two solitary figure." "An active tango dancer herself, Liliana attended art school in Buenos Aires before taking her work abroad. To date she has taken part in over 120 exhibitions and has work in private collections across the United States, Puerto Rico ..." "Tirelessly dedicated to the arts, she divides her time between painting, organizing workshops, lecturing and teaching." "'Tango is more than a dance, it is a way of life.' 'It is a never-ending challenge, unending and captivating. This is what I want to express through my work.'"