"Adventurous New York museum curators owe it to their viewing public to visit the intriguing exhibition of the virtually unknown painter Tibor Freund and maybe put a couple of reserves on some of these alluringly metaphysical paintings. Born in Hungary in 1910, Freund settled in New York in 1957 and shortly thereafter devised what he called 'motion painting.'

"We might call them either a gimmick or the first lenticular paintings. Placing narrow metal slats evenly across surfaces he then meticulously painted each side of each slat differently, creating geometric and biomorphic abstractions that change as you move from side to side. Colors flip, flowers sprout, planets glow.

"Freund may be minor but his work is infused with love, intelligence, obsession, and something that makes it connect to such visionaries as Alfred Jensen, Hilma af Klint, and Emma Kunz."

- Jerry Saltz
Sr. Art Critic, New York Magazine