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"Julie Karabenick‘s paintings mine the infinte richness of a single rectilinear form. There is  nothing meditative about the work—indeed, Karabenick consciously subverts the symmetry  of her geometric endeavor—but each composition holds itself in easy equipoise."
   
      –– Joanne Mattera, online catalogue essay for "Luxe, Calme, et Volupté,"
          Marsha Wood Gallery, 2007      read essay



"Don't miss the group exhibition 'ORDER(ed)' at the Gallery Siano, on view until June 17.
 It will open your eyes to all the possible ways geometric forms relate to the entire spectrum
 of emotions encountered in life ... I left the gallery convinced this is what every exhibition
 should encompass."     [exhibition curated by Julie Karabenick] 

      –– Anne Fabbri, Art Matters, June, 2006



"I suppose this could be the anti-entropy show: The artist as warrior against the forces
 of inertia."

      –– Roberta Fallon, catalogue essay for "ORDER(ed) curated by Julie Karabenick,
          Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, 2006             read essay



"Karabenick is an accomplished abstract artist whose work explores the communicative
 power of basic geometric forms. For the show at Gallery Siano, she has gathered
 seventeen artists from the US and Canada (including five from Philadelphia) who share her
 interest in and commitment to the modernist tradition of geometric abstraction. This elegant
 and focused survey gives the viewer an opportunity to appreciate the richness and diversity
 of geometric abstraction today."

      –– Krystyna Warchol, Key to Philadelphia, May 1-14, 2006      read review



"A psychologist by training, Karabenick is intrigued by the long history of abstract pattern in
 art making and its continuing hold on the human mind, perhaps reflecting something basic
 to our mental make-up. The show in Philadelphia is her second exhibit of this sort of work."
 
      –– Libby Rosof review of ORDER(ed), fallon and rosof artblog, May 17, 2006
           read review



"Julie Karabenick makes incredible paintings that hum with color and contrast, in a sea
 of geometric forms. For the past six years, she has been working on her "Compositions"
 series. In these paintings, balance and harmony coexist amongst tension, activity,
 and unevenness."
   
      –– Kyle Norris, "Julie Karabenick's Geometric Abstractions," Current Magazine
          April, 2006



"Julie Karabenick ... takes the constructivist grid and explodes it ...
 Through a system of carefully calculated color interactions, a kind of optical chain
 reaction, Karabenick’s pixellated pointillism gives a new spin to dynamic equilibrium."
       
      –– Lilly Wei, "Geometry Reloaded," NY Arts Magazine, May/June, 2005



"There is a wonderfully wide range of sensibilities in these paintings ... Artists, Karabenick
 proves, are still drawn to the richness of its syntax, a syntax that seems inexhaustible."
    
      –– Lilly Wei, "Geometry Reloaded," NY Arts Magazine, May/June, 2005, review
         of "Engaging the Structural," curated by Julie Karabenick
           read review



"Julie Karabenick’s is a careful, unsentimental mind in the midst of self-clarification.
 In each set of her explorations, one finds emotional depth, unity, and a complex internal
 conversation between subtly-wrought colors and shapes."
      
      –– Vivek Narayanan, "Julie Karabenick's Systematic Freedoms," NY Arts Magazine,
          January/February 2004      read review



"In crafting these deceptively complicated artworks through a stylish aesthetic that demands  exactness and heart, Karabenick’s work gives us color and form shorn of superfluous
 adornment. Such a refinement is as rare as it is accomplished."
      
       –– John Carlos Cantu, "Intensity Meets Warm Colors in Precise, Vital Compositions,"            The Ann Arbor News, June 16, 2002     read review


     
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