Press & Reviews
A selection of published reviews, critical responses, and media recognition highlighting Rick Silberberg’s artistic journey.
Over the years, Rick Silberberg’s work has been reviewed by newspapers, magazines, art critics, and regional publications.
These reviews reflect recurring themes found throughout his work—including color, imagination, atmosphere, emotional depth, and evolving visual language.
Reviews
"...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