Frank Getlein, Author and Arts Critic, In her work she has embodied clearly, at times brilliantly, one of the fundamentals of all visual art during a time when fundamentals were fading fast. Lila Asher has stood for line. When her artistic ancestor, J.A.D. Ingres, said that drawing is the probity of art, he was talking about line, as is evident in a glance at any of his work. Like him, Asher has built her entire career in art upon the firm foundation of line. We are all the beneficiaries of that early decision - if even it was a conscious decision - on her part. Our eye follows her line and hears its music, even cues us to join the chorus. Her line sings sweetly, stands strongly, builds like an architect, makes shadow and texture like a weaver, shapes life, like the creator she is. Her message to us is as multi-farious as life itself, which she celebrates in every stroke


"Art News", Lila Oliver Asher's prints illustrate mythology, the Bible, women with children, saints, lovers, etc., done in black and white with linear elements in white. Touches of orange, brown, red act as nice accents.


David C. Driskell, Professor of Art, Univ. of Maryland, The human figure has always been Asher's principal subject. She works with it with love and passion and endows each form with a realistic aesthetic that is bound in the classical antecedents from which traditional art sprang. While many creative people of Asher's generation have moved their artistry stylistically over the changing roads of modernism via abstract expressionism, pop, conceptual and other contemporary forms of making, she has remained a constant devotee to figuration and the narrative tradition. One of the most revealing aspects of Asher's artistry is the ease with which she moves with confidence from one medium to another without losing the keen sensibility of line and formal content that have always been present in her work.

"Pictures on Exhibit," Her simple uncluttered handling of subject, design, and mass, with flowing lines happily represent an artist with knowledge, good taste and flair.