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Santa Fe Reporter, “Arts and Culture” June 18-24, 2008,
p.49
"Signe Stuart likes to play at work. Her
explorations of paper art leads to organic vibrant pieces that seem more
discovered than created. Multilayered and rhythmically complex, Stuart's art
draws greatly from her critical understanding of color to crystallize the
potency of her work. The result: statements that invite the observer to
consider new relationships between natural elements and discover the elusive
patterns that already exist in nature."
Josiah Stephens, writer for
the Santa Fe Reporter
Patient Process, 2001
(exhibition catalog) “Trusting Intuition”
"{Stuart's} real enterprise
seems a process of exploration that is not easily made verbal, a way she
says, of offering a 'meta language that uncovers the nature of material.'
Thus she moves through a long-practiced process, step by step, to approach
intuited conclusions about how the world (somehow) is."
Donald Doe, Curator for
Patient Process exhibition, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College
The Magazine, June 1998,
“Solo Exhibition: Signe Stuart” p.37
..."She's got the balance
right between integrity of form and passionate expression."
Christine Hemp, writer for
The Magazine
Signe Stuart:
Retrospective 1995, (exhibition catalog) p.24
"{Stuart's} journey has been
one from a commitment to rigorous geometrical abstraction, from a largely
intellectual imposition onto the world, to something more emotive, something
more tinged with her experiences and ruminations. Over the last thirty years
she has loosened the grid and abraded the line and in doing so she has
opened up her consciousness to the mystery of the forces that surround her
and surround us as well."
James Yood, critic for
Artforum and the New Art Examiner
Signe Stuart (catalog)
1989
"Cervantes believed that
there is neither center nor circumference with the universe. Signe Stuart's
work, in both execution and content, suggests that Cervantes was right. Hers
is a work of connections."
Laurel Reuter, Director
North Dakota Museum of Art
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