Art Reviews
Helen Harrison, New York Times, 1996
“Susan Goetz Zwirn’s Landscape Boundaries, winner of an honorable mention, shows how abstraction can push a familiar scene to the limits of recognizability. Using unnaturally intense colors and faceted forms, the painter reinterprets a tranquil harbor in imaginative terms period.”www.susangzwirnpaintings.com/featured-painting.html
Russell Hausman
Art Historian and Critic (professional journal)
“Susan Zwirn’s impressionistic ‘Turbulent Reflections’ (acrylic) is a real beauty. A wooded landscape with a foreground of carefully woven strands of subtle colors that ‘catch the moment’ with rare sensitivity. Lots of poetry here.
The color harmonies are outstanding. The bottom two thirds of this painting are so good one is almost inclined to feel the upper third to have been neglected. This one would seem very much at home in a museum.”_gjm7983.jpg
Eric Ernst
Review of Selected Paintings, East Hampton Star, July 1989
“Powerful Winter – Susan Goetz Zwirn’s painting ‘Winter’ offers a cascading cacophony of blues that are both random and ordered. There is a structure of chance evolution, as it were, that in its entirety is both quiet and evocative. The sense of cold is both palpable and powerful.”powerful_winter__thoughts_of_aaronimg_3246_copy.jpg
Robert Carriola
Professional Newsletter, April 1990
“ ‘Best in Show’ award for ‘Main Street.’ The award winners were chosen based on the considerations for wholesome aesthetic order, command of tools and materials and transformation of matter into a new reality of illusion. The Best in Show Oil Painting embraces excellent composition in contemporary design shapes. Integrated high key colors with subordinate repeats for cohesion, and a particularly interesting space movement which fluctuates between a 2-D and 3-D illusion, the technique and concept is noteworthy.”_gjm7980.jpg
Carole Paquette
Huntington Press, 35th annual LI exhibit at Hecksher Museum
"The works include the powerful mood piece...In Susan Goetz Zwirn's 'Thoughts of Aaron,' blue and lavender shapes form a forest that is washed by lighter patterns which create tree trunks resembling legs."powerful_winter__thoughts_of_aaronimg_3246_copy.jpg
“Susan Goetz Zwirn’s Landscape Boundaries, winner of an honorable mention, shows how abstraction can push a familiar scene to the limits of recognizability. Using unnaturally intense colors and faceted forms, the painter reinterprets a tranquil harbor in imaginative terms period.”www.susangzwirnpaintings.com/featured-painting.html
Russell Hausman
Art Historian and Critic (professional journal)
“Susan Zwirn’s impressionistic ‘Turbulent Reflections’ (acrylic) is a real beauty. A wooded landscape with a foreground of carefully woven strands of subtle colors that ‘catch the moment’ with rare sensitivity. Lots of poetry here.
The color harmonies are outstanding. The bottom two thirds of this painting are so good one is almost inclined to feel the upper third to have been neglected. This one would seem very much at home in a museum.”_gjm7983.jpg
Eric Ernst
Review of Selected Paintings, East Hampton Star, July 1989
“Powerful Winter – Susan Goetz Zwirn’s painting ‘Winter’ offers a cascading cacophony of blues that are both random and ordered. There is a structure of chance evolution, as it were, that in its entirety is both quiet and evocative. The sense of cold is both palpable and powerful.”powerful_winter__thoughts_of_aaronimg_3246_copy.jpg
Robert Carriola
Professional Newsletter, April 1990
“ ‘Best in Show’ award for ‘Main Street.’ The award winners were chosen based on the considerations for wholesome aesthetic order, command of tools and materials and transformation of matter into a new reality of illusion. The Best in Show Oil Painting embraces excellent composition in contemporary design shapes. Integrated high key colors with subordinate repeats for cohesion, and a particularly interesting space movement which fluctuates between a 2-D and 3-D illusion, the technique and concept is noteworthy.”_gjm7980.jpg
Carole Paquette
Huntington Press, 35th annual LI exhibit at Hecksher Museum
"The works include the powerful mood piece...In Susan Goetz Zwirn's 'Thoughts of Aaron,' blue and lavender shapes form a forest that is washed by lighter patterns which create tree trunks resembling legs."powerful_winter__thoughts_of_aaronimg_3246_copy.jpg
