“Lilly Fenichel was one of the most important female painters involved with San Francisco’s early Abstract Expressionist movement. Her style showed the influence of her teacher, Hassel Smith, and also that of painter Edward Corbett, though her own work was often more lyrical and colorful than theirs.”

“It’s with great pleasure that I’m meeting and interviewing one of the great remaining voices of mid-century American art and culture, the painter Lilly Fenichel.”

“She is sexy, seductive, extraordinarily talented and is one of the smartest women - correction, persons - I have ever known!”

“Lilly was very rebellious, had a cutting edge sense of humor, and what a talent!”

“To grasp the quality of the painting . . . is to grasp the quality of the woman at work . . .
an extraordinary vitality; a passionate explorative nature; an uncompromising devotion
to her craft; and a concept in which intellect and emotion are one of the roles she plays
in shaping and extending the sensual conscious language of art.”

“Among the few women admitted into the male-dominated ranks of the abstract expressionist movement, Lilly Fenichel continues to produce formidable paintings with a range of compositional strategies and a gritty elegance all their own. ”

“I have enjoyed meeting Lilly Fenichel immensely through her paintings, drawings, and sculptures. She is one of the true rebels, and is an extremely important, if somewhat under-recognized artist in art history.”