Berenice D’Vorzon is most interested in seeing whether a painter can project a feeling of metamorphosis, and to accomplish this she emphasizes broadly brushed, nonspecific images that will seem to be a synthesis. There is a certain significance in the fact that these paintings compress not only a view and its illusionary space but historical time as well.

The psychological effects of restless line and color generate a feeling of nature’s energy in the paintings. This becomes especially intense in the canvases bounded with a painted border, for these bands are shown rippling and occasionally being pierced , seemingly because of some thrusting, unrestrainable force. Some of the agitation comes from liquid, dripping paint, but most results from powerful, swirling strokes that are inspired by water ripples or tree branches.

Phyllis Braff