This series addresses the collision between abstraction and realism, particularly advertising images, suggesting that mass media and high art are part of a single visual universe of ideas and ideologies whose meanings are mutually dependent. (mcasd.org)
Mixing high art and popular culture, advanced technology with traditional theatrical values, humour with serious politics, Maclean has fashioned a unique visual universe in her art, one that is as digitally sophisticated as it is handcrafted and laborious. (nationalgalleries.org)
These failures of taste are even more unfortunate because Nair and her cinematographer (Stuart Dryburgh of The Piano) have created a striking visual universe. (chicagoreader.com)