Artforum's May 1975 issue features Susan Heinemann's review of Judy Rifka's latest paintings:
"What is striking about Judy Rifka's paintings is their appearance as collages. Collages of paint. The surfaces are plywood, assertively there. Attached (to, on)—layers of paint building into a tangible thickness. The pigment doubling, crisscrossing on top of itself into an envelope of color. A material shape appended, as if glued, on the surface. In the series of matte black paintings, for example, two separate pieces seem to overlap, one superimposed on the other, their edges intersecting to outline a single form. Yet throughout the black is the same color. It is the drawing of the paint, the lines articulated by its varying density, that defines the interior shapes and thus substantiates the optical effect of depth. Internal rectangular patches of paint emphatically demarcate the corner of the creases. A suggestion that the shape is arrived at by a systematic process of folding."
The full article can be found at Artforum.
