Elizabeth Marglin, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colorado
“Rick Visser’s video inspired his digital pieces. His video portrays equations going across polyhedrons to evoke a palimpsest…Visser’s digital prints have a surprising charm. The equations become an abstract pattern against the brightly colored spheres. Visser also contributes the show’s most conceptual piece, “Encomium for the Lost Writings of Archimedes,” which is simply a taped-off square of wall. Given the geometrical subject matter of the lost writings, the perfect blank square invokes a geometry of loss and absence.” 10-24-2004
Mary Voelz Chandler, Denver Rocky Mountain News
“Visser expresses his feelings in a way that is neither heavy-handed nor sentimental. “Road Dogs” never shouts; instead, the works ask for contemplation in a noisy world. It is one of the strongest shows at Core since the membership gallery moved into new quarters.” 09-26-1999
Michael Paglia, Westword, Denver
“Nearly all of the artists chosen for The Traveling Show are well-known in the contemporary art community and don’t need The Open Show to display their work…One of the most gorgeous pieces in the show is a charcoal, pastel and flashe drawing by Rick Visser called “Evoking Instances #2.” Visser uses zigzags of charcoal to create geometric shapes that are filled in with color—most pointedly the primaries of red, yellow and blue—and then set against an ecru field.” 03-21-1996
Jennifer Heath, Boulder Planet
“Visser’s focus is on prisoners (in this show). He approaches the subject from as many angles as possible. Again and again, in varying segments, he portrays a group of 13 Arizona inmates, who he says refer to themselves as ‘The Unholy Baker’s Dozen.’…”Isolated Words” (where Visser’s series began for me), consists of pages clipped with mousetraps, stenciled with the letters of the title, interrupted with the faces of these prisoners. Across the way, Visser gives us three huge portraits, the ‘Il Forno,’ fragmented canvases, portraits in chalky sketches (reminiscent of police body outlines), ‘framed’ in wood affixed with bolts, and notches with lines, as if to mark off the days.” 04-28-1999
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