REVIEWS
“An intense and emotional photographer, Hobson maps the body with her brilliant collage work.”
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-Bay Area City Search, in an article written when Hobson received their 2000 Audience and Editors Award for Best Bay Area Visual Artist
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“In her powerfully conceived project, Mapping the Body, Hobson strives to represent the locus of life experience in the body. These mixed media collages aim to shift the viewer’s focus away from the external shapes and textures of human form toward the internal experiential and emotional dimensions that exist under the skin.”
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-Erica Wheeler in Camera Arts Magazine, June/July 2003
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“Hobson extends the medium beyond its assumed limits. Documenting inner experience, Hobson has found even writing, the most abstract of forms, as basic to us as bone.”
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-Apollinaire Scherr in a review of the SF Camerawork exhibition "Body/Language" in the East Bay Express, February, 1999
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“The Robert Koch Gallery had a wide selection of contemporary collages by Mary Daniel Hobson, who is a respected Dora Maar scholar. Surrealist in feel, her collages usually center on self-portraits or portraits of friends to which she adds her handwork of and, often, natural materials such as dry leaves or petals.”
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-Anne Horton, writing about AIPAD in Black and White Magazine’s June 2001 issue
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“Whether carefully examining one piece and dissecting it to its smaller elements, or stepping back to explore the collection as a whole, the viewer steps away from this exhibit with a new understanding of not only what defines a body, but also what gives it the ability to keep afloat; those things we can not shed, those things we carry heavy metal sandbags, and the things, like butterfly wings, that lift us to new, unexplored heights.”
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- Kelle Schillaci reviewing the exhibition "Mapping the Body" at the Robert Koch Gallery for Bay Area City Search in 2000
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