And abstracted images of men - beards, noses and testicles - are sometimes depicted as virtually the same image and prove difficult to decipher.

All the paintings in this astutely selected show share the abstracted image of one or more bust-length male heads densely worked in thick black paint.

The finely beaded line quality is interesting; the scribbly abstracted images less so (Johnson).

Another, called Punchong, is characterized by rough, individualistic shapes, a painterly application of white-based glazes, and big, eye-grabbing abstracted images appropriate to a popular, mass-produced ware.

The abstracted images, like "Posthumous Succor (Finale)," conjure up associations of surgery, suggesting ambiguous anatomical parts that are being sutured.

The artist's graphic loops have their counterparts in the swirls and flows of weather systems, represented by equally abstracted electronic images.

The group breaks up into solos and in the second part, "The Letter," Nina Watt shifts her weight through abstracted images of pain, accompanied by klezmer music.

This painter uses her own blood along with gold leaf to create abstracted images of waves, clouds and bubbles that call to mind Japanese screens and turn-of-the-last-century Viennese design.

With other artists, he continually seeks real-life antecedents for their abstracted images.

Her series The Academy of Secrets is Charlesworth's attempt to convey her emotions through using abstracted images of objects that have symbolic associations.