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ABSTRACT HIGHS by Ann Elliott Sherman "Foosaner flies with the angels..., and her defiance of gravity is catching. ... As with the best contemporary dance, we don't stop to ask wy the movement is there, but feel glad to witness an assured athleticism, a confluence of the physical and spiritual that we aren't practiced at attaining." "... Foosaner's spare, achromatic works, quirky blends of the dissonant and lyrical, of shadow and light, left this ragged soul strangely exalted." JUDITH FOOSANER'S MODERN MEASURES by Bill Berkson "In the flash of an eye, a whole picture will show itself as a unit of sense: what one sees is not construction... but an instantaneous appearance as if a veil were lifted at the moment that structural bindings become a pact." "The semblance of motion as a cumulative traffic of marks and interstices, afloat or scurrying, prompts the view of each paintings' surface as a site of transformation where character is all in the momentum, rather than the congealing, of resilient parts." JUDITH FOOSANER: THE MARRIAGE OF LINE AND SPACE by Peter Frank "Abstract expressionism, the touchstone aesthetic of modern American art, was, supposedly, characterized above all by spontaneity of spirit and execution. What action painting in fact presented was the romanticized image of sudden inspiration and spontaneous production; its masters actually controlled their every stroke, drip, and tendril. Where abstract expressionism seemed to embody the soul of improvisation, in reality it manifested improvisatory creation as a dialectic between impulse and control. Judith Foosaner's work--which inherits from abstract expressionism while maintaining a crucial critical distance--has long exposed this very dialectic, clarifying the nexus of form and gesture, space and line while imposing order through the introduction of extraneous coordinates (grids, patterned and collaged elements)." [ + ] JUDITH FOOSANER: NIGHT FLIGHT: RECENT COLLAGE DRAWINGS by Maxine Hong Kingston "To me, her small collages are multi-faceted gems, and I own two of them. The large, magnificent collages are like fields and fields of wild grasses. They're like cyclotron plates of particles and waves. They're like Chinese script that you can read if you know the poem. Stepping close to a collage, I feel that I am looking into room after room, world after world. Viewing from a distance, I am amazed - the universe has pattern, order, grace, beauty." - Maxine Hong Kingston, 2010 COLLAGES FROM OLD DRAWINGS ADD TO ORIGINAL ARTWORK by Kenneth Baker "Her collages, and a few related paintings on view, make vivid the intuition on which an artist must finally rely in deciding when a work has come together as best it can. Seen in action, this intuition models the steering by feeling that we all must do in some domain or other. When it functions well at the level of accomplishment Foosaner demonstrates here, we cannot see enough of it." - Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 2010
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