rick silberberg contemporary artist
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"...fascinating use of elemental colors..."

"...magnifying glass windows on worlds invisible to the unaided eye..."

"...predominantly strong intense, fluid, suggest life emergent and mutant."

-John Kelly, Norwich Bulletin, April 1981

"a two dimensional mystery." "a mad scientist's experiment."

-Connor Perkins, Main Street News, August 2001

"...there is a wonderful sense of serenity, the richness of nature and human experience, conveyed in both his subject matter and vibrant colors..."

"His technique of doing a preliminary drawing, reworking with 
pencil and painting again, creates a wonderful depth to his work, 
as do the paintings' muliple horizon lines and multi-layered borders."

-Amy Barry, Features Editor for Valley Courier, October 2001

"...one is transported; arms spread across the sash, 
forehead pressed against the glass peering into a turbulent 
but mesmerizing terrain."

"...full of metamorphosis, electricity and imagination."

-Leah Lopez Schmalz, Valley Courier, March 2006

"From small, precise compositions to large works divided 
on the canvas into discrete spaces, Silberberg's creations seem to 
transform into something other than what they started out to be. 
Here are abstract 'landscapes' that reach for more literal grounding; 
there, one finds quasi representational landscapes in the 
process of melting into pure abstraction."

"A variety of shapes and attitudes in palettes ranging 
from sandy desert hues to near psychedelic, 
tropical colors -- sometimes all on the same canvas. 
Silberberg moves easily among a kind of dreamy cosmology 
to more precise rendering of recognizable landscape 
features to loose 'collages' of geometric patterns."

"Silberberg has pulled together a number of concepts 
in these complex works. The longer one spends with the paintings, 
the more hypnotic and enchanting their effects."

-Steve Starger, Regional Reviews, Art New England, October/November 2006



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