Scattered Light: Too Poetic for You?

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Dorothy Shin, Akron Beacon Journal--
"Janet Snell's Mind Screen is an attention-grabbing expressionist work that touches on many of the psychological bells and whistles so doted on by Abstract Expressionists of old. Snell, however, uses figuration, creates a sense of foreground and background, and the mocking manner in which she has rendered the plasma screen above her head tells us that perhaps she's not as into the psychobabble as her predecessors."

"Her work is dark,mysterious, seemingly drawn from the subconscious,
sharing affinities with a variety of expressionist and neoexpressionist painters such as Ernst Munch, A.R. Penck and Susan Rothenberg.In her paintings, ghostly figures waft through dark and shadowy environments, mysterious forms seem laden with hidden meaning and
deep forests loom menacingly...Foreboding, regret, entrapment, longing and enigma vie
for prominence while gestural, expressive brushwork gives the forms a supernormal tension and energy...Snell is an important talent who deserves much more exposure."

Bob Grumman, Taproot--"Macabre, comic, mysterious, and subtly erotic, these fascinating drawings constantly flirt with disgust -- a perfect example of graphic black humor. "

"A series of charcoal drawings that go darkly anywhere via an expressionism that reminds me of Egon Schiele and Francis Bacon. Snell provides poems for her illustrations that generally extend rather than just rephrase them--e.g., "Wired up to perpetual self serve,/ the meter running--/ up from the depth arises/ nothing!/ But the phone's always ringing/ off the wall."

Cheryl Snell brings us Flower Half-Blown (Finishing Line, 2002) and Epithalamion (Little Poem Press, 2004), the former a 25 page chapbook of varied and beautifully imaged lyric narratives, and the latter a 64 page collection with an unusual binding. Inside it’s vintage Snell but more surreal, and with more Hindu content and themes. Again, she stuns us with her imagery.---Comstock Review

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Too Poetic for You?

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