REVIEW EXCERPTS

A LEGEND IN OUR TIME . . THE FIRST FEMINIST IMAGERY

CHARLES FINCH, WBAI-ARTS

A NEW CANON.
PIONEERING WORK . . STARTLING INNOVATIONS, FEARLESS SHATTERING OF TRADITION, AGAINST INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM AND SEXISM WITH A NEW KIND OF IMAGE MAKING . . MONUMENTAL . . . BEAUTY AND LIBERATION .....

ARLENE RAVEN, ART HISTORIAN
FEMINIST ART CRITICISM #2

IT IS TIME WE RECOGNIZED AND HONORED OUR PIONEERS . . . OUR FEMINIST FOREMOTHER ANITA STECKEL - SHE MAY BE THE EARLIEST CREATOR OF VISUAL IMAGERY THAT EXPRESSES THE STRUGGLE AGAINST PATRIARCHAL OPPRESSION ....

PHYLLIS ROSSER
NEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN
XMAS COVER STORY

"OUT OF 65 WORKS, THESE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITES . . . ANITA STECKEL'S BLOWN-UP NEW YORK SKYLINES WHOSE BUILDINGS ARE DWARFED BY MOUNTAIN GOATS AND ZEBRAS"

Grace Glueck
NEW YORK TIMES

"OF 50 WORKS BY DALI, COCTEAU, NIVOLA, TCHELITCHEW, . . . THE MOST POSITIVE AND WORTH A SECOND VISIT . . . ANITA STECKEL"

Patricia Bosworth
Biography

"SPECTACULARLY TALENTED"
Knopf Press, Arbus

"THE WORKS IN THIS SHOW ARE WONDERFUL."
"IN THE EARLY 60'S THIS PIONEERING FEMINIST ARTIST USED PAINT WITH WITH A FINE TOUCH TO TRANSFORM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS INTO COMICALLY SURREALISTIC IMAGES THAT CALL TO MIND HANNAH HOCH AND THE GRAPHICS OF MONTY PYTHON."

K. Johnson
NEW YORK TIMES
Weekend Fine Arts Galleries, Fri., Jan. 19,2001, "Self-images and Montage, "
Mitchell Algus, 25 Thompson St.

"AN EXTRAORDINARY SELF-PORTRAIT CALLED The Big Rip-up, IN WHICH BRIGHT COLORS SPOUT FROM HER RIGHT EYE AND DOWN HER FACE AS THOUGH HER FEELINGS AND SORROW WERE IDENTIFIED WITH THE BRILLIANCE OF HER ART."

"IN A DIRECT AND OFTEN OUTSPOKEN WAY, THE WORK OF ART BECOMES A PLACE WHERE IMAGE, ARTIST, AND VIEWER ARE ONE."

"STECKEL IS CHANGING THE EQUATION OF RELATIONAL POSSIBILITIES IN THE LARGER WORLD OF EMOTION."

D. Goddard
NEW YORK ART WORLD. COM

"BREAKTHROUGH GENIUS . . . REVOLUTIONARY . . . MASTERPIECE . . . THE NEW ART MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE I'VE SEEN, COMBINES PHOTO AND PAINTING IN VISUAL EQUIVALENT OF MAILERS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL JOURNALISM, NOTHING BUT THE MOST FAR REACHING ARENAS FOR WOMEN, IRRESISTIBLE, EPIC."

MARYSE HOLDER
Feminist Art Criticism, An Anthology,
edited by Art Historian, Arlene Raven plus Langer, Frueh, and Kuspit.