Located in a central vitrine, such ephemera provides a useful tether to the mystically transcendent artworks that rejected state-sponsored Muralism for personal expression. The dramatically lit galleries emphasize the allure of Carrillo’s pulsating surfaces. Carillo’s work shares with AbEx an uncanny effervescent quality that appears to animate its abstract forms, but Carillo’s earthy color palette and contemplative mood ultimately distinguish her work. Premonitions, the second concept introduced in the exhibition’s title, hints at Carrillo’s fascination with plumbing hidden psychic urges, archaic forces, and oracular portents of the future. For example, Emblema cabalistico (Kabbalistic Emblem), 1965, features swirling forms that coalesce and dissolve, subtly referencing the hidden dimensions of the universe as conceived in Jewish mysticism...Read the full article.