EXPO CHICAGO

“Her subject—the body and illness as understood through the art and science of medicine—is enriched by her mastery as a painter. She has responded to the evolution of medical imaging and practice as a skilled colorist who works intuitively, is in command of her craft, and aligns her work with the language of modernist abstraction.”

- Rebecca Hart in "A Prescription" (2023)

"Beneath richly textured and boldly saturated surfaces, Annie Lapin has puzzled together a version of the world that presents itself more like a dream than reality. Her large-scale paintings plot out jarring spatial arrangements that distort time and skew perspective. Multiple dimensions collide on fluctuating ground, an effect that creates perceptual shifts that jolt the imagination and propel us to the edges of our minds. Various points of entry are offered via compartmentalized planes of pigment and fragmented scenes."

- Mardee Goff in "Annie Lapin: Beginning of Night" (2022)

"Such powerful color conversations are contained within and among the shapes for the artist, who speaks of the forms as 'energy or forces that move in and out of the work.' Indeed, these shapes are not simply abstract but stem from an intensive investigation of the role abstraction plays in everyday life. Most often, these elements are determined by the resonance of an experience or are inspired by the direct observation of an object as it optically morphs in response to an external light source."

- Kara L. Rooney in "Heather Gwen Martin: Heatwave" (2022)

"There is magic in the gesture as Rae brings a brushstroke to objecthood—in effect, an indefinable structure that can be perceived as sculpture. These component images in the paintings appear as if they could be picked up from above and transported elsewhere in the work. She maintains a cauldron of associations, including her own images from the past and her materials."

- Barbara A. MacAdam for The Brooklyn Rail (2022)