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Cindy Shaoul
"Dreams Are Forever" Abstract Oil Painting on Wood Panel in White Frame
2026

About the Item

With vibrant layers of oil paint, sweeping brushstrokes, and thrown paint, Shaoul captures a love story on her painter’s palette through dynamic abstract expression. The artist reimagines the everyday palette as both backdrop and material, building rich surfaces with thick impasto and repurposed dried oil paint collected from her studio. For Shaoul, painting on an object used daily and transforming it into a vehicle for fresh artistic expression, is a deeply personal passion. She further enhances the work with gold and silver drips, mixed media, and fragments of glass, lending it a distinctly contemporary abstract feel. Rooted in abstract expressionism, her process celebrates playful abandon: throwing paint freely to create bold, color-rich compositions that draw viewers into the artwork with energy and joy. This piece belongs to the artist’s Dream Series, an homage to the dream of fully embracing abstract expression—a technique she has long yearned to explore without restraint. The painting is signed and titled on the verso and is presented in a sleek white contemporary wood frame with hanging wire, ready to display. Art measures 14 x 11 inches Frame measures 16 x 13 inches Inspired by whimsey and purity of the feminine form, Cindy Shaoul is known for her impressionistic and abstract style. She is best known for her series of Brides, Dripping Dots and Hearts, as well as her Plein air street scenes of quintessential New York spots. Shaoul’s works can be found in permanent collections of 100’s of Corporate and Private Collections around the world. Since her first solo show at the Parsons School of Design in 2009, her work has been showcased internationally in Busan South Korea and has shown at Art Fairs in Miami, Palm Beach, Dallas, and New York. She has had numerous Solo exhibitions and this year has garnered the attention of Actress Lily J. Collins and the like. Her love of painting began at the age of 18 when she was on Thanksgiving break from college. She painted a 9 foot colorful, abstract Mural in her Mothers' art studio and never stopped after that. She later traveled to Hungary and Budapest, picking up inspiration and studying abroad for 2 years, which has connected lifelong experiences that would influence her art today. Upon returning to New York City, she would continue her artistic education at the Art Students League, where she worked under the tutelage of Joseph Peller, Gregg Kreutz, and Tom Torak. She learned techniques from the great masters of impressionism, but it wasn’t until she met renowned street artist Angel Ortiz who previously worked with Keith Haring, that her work would strongly become influenced by 1980s hip-hop and graffiti, propelling her reputation and pushing her into the city’s explosive urban art scene. The collection they worked on was an homage to New York’s streets, where Ortiz began when he first met Haring. This style of creation heavily impacted Shaoul’s technique, expanding her voice of discovery and moving her hand of impressionism not only to traditional subjects of New York City street scenes but to boundary-free expressions in the abstract world. While Shaoul honed her skill at the Students League, in her studio the “Dripping Dots” began a whole new aesthetic. Started from the leftover paint on her pallet, she would clean the paint with her brushes onto a new canvas, not to waste the leftover oils, and soon, the motion of cleaning turned into dots on the canvas. She began connecting the dots with linseed oil and this is how the motif was imprinted. It would become a freeing moment of painting in an abstract way after going to school and learning the impressionist technique. The experience of discovery with color and emotional brushwork became very cathartic, and felt familiar from the times she would collaborate with Ortiz. Shaoul would continue to explore new themes in her work. In 2018 she began the “Brides” series which balances her love for impressionism with an abstract hand. While exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, she would create a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. The Brides would give a new meaning of expression to her practice, and allowed nuances to emerge, demonstrating a whimsical expression of femininity and formality adding a stunning display of understated grandeur to her work. Artist Statement: "With the Brides series, I aim to create exotic forms with expressive and highly textural brushstrokes that are full of intense color, loosely inspired by artists of the French Impressionist movement such as Renoir, Degas, and Mary Cassatt. All impressionists whose works blend traditional academic art with the radical movements that went on to dominate the art world in the 20th century. I try to capture impressions of “The Ballerinas” which are found in many of Degas works where he has captured movement like never before. With the music I listen to, my brush lands on the canvas with immediate rhythm and style. I want the Bride to have a dazzling explosion of variable life to symbolize the future that lies ahead for her. The surprise of the rhythm is what excites me while creating these pieces, and I aspire to bridge what I’ve learned in school with my passion for exuberant abstraction and depth of color into the essence of her figure and spirit." PROVENANCE: Lilac Gallery Collection. Consigned by the gallery directly from Cindy Shaoul Studio. The artwork is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity issued by the artist. The piece will be stamped from Lilac Gallery on its verso.

Creator:
Cindy Shaoul (1987, American)
Creation Year:
2026
Dimensions:
Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 13 in (33.02 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
Medium:
Mixed Media,Oil,Wood Panel
Movement & Style:
Abstract Expressionist
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Comes in simple contemporary wood frame that the artist sources, may have ordinary wear and minor imperfections in line with the manufacturing period.
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: 0070201stDibs: LU98218141972

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