Critical Statements
Review of Layers - Linda, these are really Brilliant & incredibly inventive & ambitious in the layering - & in the effects of what happens in movements in the video. 🙂 !!! Visionary!!! Bill Rabinovitch NYC, NY
When I look at Lee’s work I see a symphony of form, color, and shape! The harmonics are delicately balanced, as each note moves toward the whole, yet returns to its own shape. This dynamic fusion of line and plane sweeps us through space and creates both a powerful crescendo while maintaining a sublime stasis.
Lee’s work connects directly with your imagination, suggesting a world that we inhabit intuitively. You move through the images, as if you are deeply immersed in an unknown world that is both real and imagined. Like her work, we are layered images, as time and experience, fold within our memory, and shape who are and what we choose to be. ..….She is a wonderful artist with a keen eye that has achieved a significant body of work. Take a close look, and you will see a gifted artist with a language uniquely her own working at the height of her creative abilities.
Neil Goodman, Professor Emeritus of the Fine Arts, Indiana University Northwest June 16, 2020.
“HOUSEWIFE “is a multi-story painting. You’re not sure if you should cry or smile at what you are seeing. Married or single-parent women can relate to this piece in one way or another. The dishes that are stacking up, food that needs to be prepared, the garden that needs attention and the mammary glands that have sucked her dry or could it mean cancer? The broken clock, the gun, the water spilling is this the woman’s final thread? This piece is typical of L Lee Heinsen’s (Ligocki) work. There are stories within stories. This work created conversation. Her pieces make you stop and look again and again.
Ann Fritz- Director, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Indiana University Northwest, Indiana 2015
“Lee, once again a great master piece from an absolute genius Like you, you know pretty well how much I admire you work. So let me start by quoting on your above piece of art work.
"Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes...Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas."
- Arshile Gorky
Only a true artist of your caliber and a great admirer like me will cherish the painting.
You as an artist have encapsulated a multidimensional abstract work, which is unique in itself. Your style comprises all kinds of symmetrical and Non Symmetrical combinations of planes and angles. Although it isn't photo realistic. But there is a difference between being abstracted and being abstract.
Lee, Let me know when you are displaying your art work for sale, as you’re aware during your last art exhibition, I have purchased your art work for ……….. Your art exhibition will be on my priority list, so please keep me posted about it. Regards,”
Michael Dexter, VP -Training and Development, London, UK 2015
“I am always impressed that L Lee Heinsen-Ligocki can hide additional points of view in her drawings and paintings. Each time you look at her pieces, you see something that you missed the first time. …”.Dancing Trees” are full of life, and have souls. I can’t think of any other paintings of trees that capture the souls of the trees so well”
Charles LaFrance, Professor, 2012 Graham, North Carolina
“I can appreciate most art - but I like the "from the gut" work - there is an authenticity of intent and emotion I really connect with...and a sense of thumbing one's nose at tradition in the vein of personal expression...I find this irresistible…”
March 20, 2010 by Jennifer Wagner, Gallery26, Easton, Maryland
“…she sees all pursuits…to share with viewers her own sense of wonder and delight while immersed in such visual richness. Ligocki operates in a realm where her artful connections demonstrate how images outpace words and reach a more essential area of consciousness…..While the viewer is frequently tempted to look at and understand depicted ritual gestures, glyphs, and symbols as material to be researched or explored for specific meanings, Ligocki in the work seems to disarm such heady pursuits…..“
Critical Review August 10, 2008 by Greg Hertzlieb, Director/Curator, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
“She’s a very talented watercolorist who really knows her medium…She is brave in what she does and she’s very honest in what she says in her art, which is refreshing. “
The Times, Press release, April 25, 2008, by Linda Dorman co-owner and curator Uncle Freddy’s Gallery, Highland, IN