Artist Reviews

There are actually some wonderful artists in "Options 2005," the biennial contemporary art exhibition organized by the Washington Project for the Arts (now the Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran) since 1981 -- artists whose work could legitimately be described as original, interesting ... and good. Among them is Susan Noyes Vaughan, whose razor-blade-on-canvas offerings are all that and more.

Both Darkly emotional (in their evocation of violence) and coolly decorative (in their geometric reserve), they manage to simultaneously straddle "the expressive and the minimalist," to use the words of curator Libby Lumpkin, who organized the 20-artist show from a field of 400 submissions and who led a walk-through of the show on a rainy opening weekend. Plus they're cool to look at."

- Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post October 14, 2005