Reviews
Mary Krieger from Gunton exhibited two of her more familiar woodcut prints, but also displayed several landscapes in oil, a new medium for her. Unlike the stillness of many landscapes, her prairie scenes are full of lights and lively movement, constantly shifting and changing as in real life.
Sheila Morrison, "Artists put together a class show", The Stonewall Argus/Teulon Times, Wednesday, August 17, 1988
Mary Krieger's prairie landscapes, painted in acrylics or printed from woodcuts she has carved, share the revelation of natural forces with other artists' works. In Prairie the movement of a restless wind over the land uplifts yellow vegetation toward a turbulent sky. Ms Krieger had displayed her paintings earlier in the summer at Wasagaming, in Riding Mountain National Park. She declared a willingness, as she prepared for the Quarry Days show, to point out to any inquirer how a realistic scene could form the basis for an abstract one. The handprints from woodcuts occupy a sturdy middle ground in such a discussion, their hewn-rock surfaces easy to identify.
Carolyn Hoople Creed, "Town Perceptions", DATELINE:arts, Winter 1988-89
Comments
I saw your B/W Prairie Woodcuts and I understood that you also are fascinated searching for the shades and the "colors" in the black. A friend of mine, also a woodcut printer loves to do landscapes mostly in B/W.…You two sure share some ways of expression.
michael
Michael Schneider,
Baren
, April 3, 1999
Artexpo encounter
Artexpo provides me an opportunity not available elsewhere to see a wide spectrum of people face to face with my work and hear what they have to say. One man in particular sticks in my memory.
He was standing in front of Coulee Bridge, his feet planted, his arms folded across his chest concentrating on the piece. His companion was pointing out where the sky was and the horizon but he kept repeating, "I don't see it, I just don't see it."
I couldn't resist joining in but with no more success. I finally said, "That's the great thing about art. You can like it or not as you please."
With no change of expression, he replied in a firm tone, "Oh, I like it. I just don't see it."
I shouldn't be so shy about admitting that my pieces are as much abstract compositions as they are landscapes.
November 1998