Jolie Harris explores painterly space in a more abstract manner that recalls a subtle Joan Mitchell abstract expressionist touch. (daytoncitypaper.com)
She teases the viewer with the promise of illusionistic painterly space and then she catapults her canvas into the void, forcing it to exist in real time, building little fortresses, and firing cannons in its general direction. (fac.umass.edu)
In the paintings, works on paper and sculptures at Kent Place, one can see Dagley developing a wide range of artistic possibilities, including hallucinatory optical and retinal color effects, intense patterns, contradictory painterly spaces and geometric constructions. (minusspace.com)