Janice Biala

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Janice Biala was an American painter and printmaker whose abstract compositions, worked primarily in oil and gouache, synthesized cubist geometry with a restrained, lyrical palette. Active from the 1920s through the late twentieth century, she developed a distinctive approach to grid-based abstraction that avoided both pure geometric severity and gestural excess. Her work remained largely under-recognized during her lifetime, despite consistent exhibition and a practice spanning seven decades.

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