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Reviews
“The tension stems from her framing…..She crops faces, foreshortens perspectives and extends our understanding of portrait composition as she shifts the discourse from reverence to repetition.”
Brett Levine
Art NZ No. 84, Spring 97: Review of “The Dinner Party – Diary of a Social Life”
Read the full review: The Dinner Party Series
“Daughter is an intriguing work, partly because of its faint similarity with the Vermeer, partly because of its enigmatic and even ambiguous quality….By drawing on the past, Melissa Anderson Scott attempts to comment on and address issues which seem to her presently pertinent.”
“Personal Greed extends her attraction to “interactive art”, …”
“An interpretation of relationships, combined with experimentation with colour and technique, make it an engaging experience.”
“Anderson Scott believes the human face can also represent inner turmoil and deep workings that may not be transmitted through other media.”
“It's the faces that concentrate Melissa's search, concealing the past, known or unknown, and it's the faces that illuminate these paintings and entice us.”
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