Akron Beacon Journal
Art Review by Dorothy Shim, Beacon Journal Art and Architecture critic
Sunday, November 24, 2002
Friese, too, takes on 17th-century Dutch painting, which she pumps up with as much color as she can muster, giving the viewer an intense experience of what it means to go for "Baroque."
Yet we are carried away by her vigor and energetic use of intuitive color, which filters the hints of hue in limb, bough, berm and hedgerow through a keen poetic sensibility