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6 unusual facts about Roberta Smith


Amy Sillman

Art critic Roberta Smith compared Sillman to similar women painters such as Elena Sisto, Margaret Curtis, and Sue Williams.

Block Busters

Later, Danny (Jimmy Strand), sees his girl friend Jinx (Roberta Smith) dancing with Jean at a party, so the gang decides to crash it.

Greg Colson

Roberta Smith put it like this in her early New York Times review: “In nearly all of Mr. Colson’s works, the combination of modesty and grandiosity, of mental exactness and physical imprecision adds up to an odd, sad beauty.

Neil Jenney

The work's impact was large for such a brief period: according to New York Times art critic Roberta Smith "in those two years Mr. Jenney helped put representational painting on a new course and established precedents for the art of the 1970s, 80s and 90s."

Terence Koh

So Roberta Smith described the work in an appreciative March, 2011, review.

Thomas Scheibitz

According to Roberta Smith, "his sculptures resemble architectural models or fragments of logos; his paintings are vaguely figurative".


Felipe Jesus Consalvos

Consalvos has been described by art critic Roberta Smith as a "self-starting modernist" who is "nearly on a par with folk-art greats like Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez and James Castle." According to Smith, Consalvos' work "belongs to the collage continuum from Hannah Höch to Barbara Kruger." (Smith 2006).


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