The Hudson Review
At the Galleries
Karen Wilkin
Autumn 2006
... For all the aggressive materiality of Schrank’s recent paintings, their lush, radiant
hues and sense of unifying warmth – or coolness, in some of the works on paper –
had associations with the art of the past. But just when it seemed as if these dense,
deceptive pictures were woven out of the artist’s fragmented recollections of the old
and modern masters she most reveres, the floating dots and lozenges triggered thoughts
of the photomechanical and the commercial, further destabilizing associations and
rendering Schrank’s paintings even more mysterious.
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ARTFORUM
"New York Critic's Picks"
Linda Schrank
May 2006
by Nikki Cesare
...Linda Schrank's work, with its thickly textured strips of
paint woven over and through each other in densely elegant
lines, has often been related to tapestry. Her technique, however,
is one of subtraction: She scrapes away coats of paint with a custom
tool to form the patterns on her canvases. The bands open up to reveal
a visceral depth in this show of new paintings and works on paper ...
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REVIEW
Linda Schrank, Alternate Routes
April 1, 2001
by Mark Daniel Cohen
...The curving lines that are the compositional element of the majority of
her works coalesce into interference patterns, the crossings and complicated
intersections of radiating wave structures, as if emanating from a multitude
of throbbing, vibrational sources and laying out the field of their compounding
implications. Her images are, through the virtue of her method, exemplifications
of field theory, for the arcing lines are force patterns, trails and, to the senses of the
viewer, instigations of moving forces... click for full review
ABSTRACT ART ON LINE
Linda Schrank at Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art
March 28, 2001
by Joseph Walentini
...the artist successfully combines structure and anarchy within the work.
They offer a strong impression of defined grids that have somehow melted.
Moving in for a close look you see that each
painting is constructed of dozens of tiny paintings that make up the whole ... click for full review
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