Levitas' "organic abstractions" (paintings built from home made pigments, canvas, and organic materials - in some cases entire trees) have also received critical acclaim.

"Only then will we be able to follow the development of organic abstraction in America - how each generation has responded to our changing understanding of the natural world."

Like architecture it is an organic abstraction in concrete form.

Greg Singer's lineup of modest gouaches are old-time organic abstractions with the narrative pull of comic-strip story boards.

We don't often see much Pelton, but she's really good, and her organic abstraction here is gorgeously hallucinogenic, the real unearthly thing.

It is the kind of image that helped pave the way for organic abstraction, in sculpture as well as painting.

It establishes four categories: figuration, organic abstraction, architectural abstraction and transformed objects.

By organic abstraction, the show means the involvement of sculptors with - and often the need to partake of - the forms and processes of nature.

It is called "Forces of Nature," and it includes five sculptures that can be very roughly defined as organic abstractions.

They are in the realm of organic abstraction, and resemble the insides of flowers made famous by Georgia O'Keeffe.