"Ten U.S. museums, including Manhattan's Metropolitan, own Lawrence Kupferman's precise drypoints of decaying Victorian mansions. So far as Kupferman is concerned, these pictures are just museum pieces now. At 39, he bubbles with a new enthusiasm - making abstract paintings of crawling sea life. They hardly look like the work of the same man. Exhibitied in Manhattan last week, the painting nonetheless showed the same craftsmanship he once lavished on academic art. Kupferman had changed horses in mid-stream and done it with the dexterity of a circus rider..."
-Time Magazine, April 19, 1948

"This carefully selected exhibition of four oils and seven works on paper reinstates Kupferman as a pioneer in the development of Abstract Expressionist technique and theory...(Protozoan Community#2, 1947) explodes with fluid blotches and tentacles of color.  Delicate, quivering filaments and projectiles define and emanate from amoebalike forms.  An underpainting of blue, yellow, and green washes suggests the fresh water where a community of protozoa exists.  There is no focal point in this work:  it seems to have been created by carefully controlled accident.  The artist's ebullient sense of chaos illuminates this spirited ocean landscape...His work is organic abstraction of the highest order."
-Francine Koslow, Artforum, March, 1990

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Lawrence Kupferman
Protozoan Community
1947
Oil on Panel
40 x 24 inches