"When you view the works...try not to be lured into cliches about the touchy-feely Bay Area sensibility. Think instead of Matisse’s vision of art as soothing and restorative, a 'good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.' Friedman plans her artworks on gridded paper, belying their air of radical improvisation. The works here are challenging and unforgiving aesthetic adventures," writes DeWitt Cheng.