Judith Geichman: Reviews

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October, 2007
Online Review by Amy Guth

JUDITH GEICHMAN, "Soak." Judith Geichman’s "Soak" exhibit utilizes her signature pours, stains, suede fibers, experiments and improvisations to visually evoke a sense of interpretation, personalization and a near-ethereal sense of chance, reminiscent of something part Rorschachian inquiry, part cloud- and sunset-watching. This spectrum is most obvious in contrast between "Untitled/Atmospheric and Morph or Scene with Pink and Grey." The works read as both transfixing calm and intrepid invigoration, as perfect coexistence and tense conflict between the natural and the built. "Romance with Reference To Fragonard," suggestive of Fragonard’s hinted eroticism and sexual freedom, wonderfully captures Geichman’s sense of intense stillness and swirling movement. Geichman, it seems, both aims for and beautifully executes these dualities again and again. (Amy Guth)

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On the Town, Chicago Tribune, November 2, 2007

by Alan Artner

Some pieces come out of a 2005 residency in Iceland. These achieve a strong pictorial effect almost entirely through a palette limited to ice blues, whites, black and gray. The 2006 “Icelandic Rush” is the most successful of these paintings, evoking the tumult of landscape through light and air, without actually suggesting more palpable elements such as the rocks and water alluded to elsewhere.