Her use of the language of both painting and sculpture creates striking works that combine formal tension with emotional presence. (shop.whitechapelgallery.org)
These accumulations of architectural debris and vaguely recognizable objects elicit a sense of mystery and antiquity while also achieving infinitely varied formal tensions between the objects so displayed, thanks to her skill at arranging them. (britannica.com)
In the late 1940s, Fine drew extensively from Cubist fragmentation as well as from the ideas of Hans Hofmann on the harmonics and formal tensions of color and shape. (artsy.net)