Review Excerpts

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, August 17, 1997

"Signposts in Driftwood" by Barry Schwabsky

"Ms. Rosser...makes dense abstract constructions of wood stripped of its bark and washed smooth by water, most recently a river in Vermont. At its best, her work can be a powerful synthesis of nature and culture. While the works are as imposing physically as any sculptor could want, their interwining pieces also recall the muscular brush strokes of Abstract Expressionist painters like Joan Mitchell or Willem be Kooning - sculptural objects with pictorial space.

The bare wood has... to do with memories of a bleak childhood, with feelings of isolation and entrapment, but it's more essential that viewers see...as she says, 'the work is about struggle, that it has a writhing quality.' "

AS IF ALIVE: ANIMATE SCULPTURE
September 10 - October 29, 2000

Sara Lynn Henry, Curator
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts
Summit, New Jersey

"These denuded wood bones are arranged in emotionalized nexes of seeming particularized feelings...This is not read but experienced as a pulling inward and pushing outward. Yet what is more surprising is that these elements seem to be specific animate beings as if the swarm of emotions we experience is a moving, pushing, reaching, intertwining, striving gaggle of living presences - more "other" than self. It is this otherness that makes for the depth presence of all things."

STATE OF THE ART, November/December 1997

"Portrait of the Artist" by Gail Kolflat

"In most pieces, beige, silver, and black branches are arranged in elegant, elongated, densely layered configurations. Sinewy shapes, intertwined together like flowing waves, create harmonious patterns similiar to the natural grain of wood. The bare properties of the wood, weathered smooth from water running over them, combined with the artist's manner of manipulation and positioning forms into peaks and valleys produce beautiful, naturally inspired surfaces."