Lanelle Abueva is all fired up over painted ceramics
FROM the show’s title, “If I Could Paint,” down to the painterly idiom used, which is abstraction, questions are certain to be raised in the visitor’s mind: Is the title a lament for a talent that one does not possess? If one paints in abstraction, does it automatically imply that the artist is incapable of figuration, and therefore, does not know how to paint? Or: If one wanted to paint, why not be practical and just use canvas or paper?