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Abbe reviews 'Arabesque'

By David Gonnerman '90
March 19, 2010
"Memory" by Judy Onofrio (2009, 31x35x15 inches).

Mary Abbe, art critic for the Star Tribune, recently ventured down to campus to check out "Arabesque" -- a new art show by the mother-daughter team of sculptor Judy Onofrio and painter Jennifer Onofrio Fornes.

"The question of how to suggest and depict the human spirit has puzzled artists since our forebears first sketched the outlines of bison on cave walls many millennia ago," writes Abbe. "Birds, watery reflections, smoke and shadows have all evoked the spirit world. While nodding to those ancient traditions, Onofrio and Fornes go a step beyond, creating their own yin and yang of darkness and light, animation and silence, bones and blossoms, death and regeneration."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.