Donald Kuspit, exhibition essay, Mist Series, 1992 Mist Series are abstract paintings that reflect an awareness of nature. "The sense of mysterious femininity pervades these abstractions," writes art historian Donald Kuspit in the exhibition catalog. Lerner's abstract paintings are "self reflections and by extension reflections of the female self. More particularly, they remind us that femininity continues to have archaic meaning, despite our scientific enlightenment about it. That is why it is still moving."...