Kate Wilson

"Kate Wilson inflects her work with a disquieting luminosity. One writer has likened the energetic demeanor of Wilson's paintings to James Dean-ish recklessness while her style has an ungainly elegance as they tilt toward a subtle terror"

- Helen Marzolf, curator, force majeure, Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

"Wilson draws (and paints) very well indeed. Her dystopian cities and mouldering malls (some lit by chandeliers hung from the sky above as if they were frozen explosions) are made to creak and lean and crumble with a few deft rubbings of ink. Her coloured drawings - sour with acidic lemon and lime green and reds the colour of melting steel - make you feel as if you are watching the apocalypse through coloured gels"

- Gary Michael Dault, Gallery Going, The Globe and Mail

"The lovely irony of the work is that Wilson has a singing, airy stroke that if applied to, say, pictures of sunny hills and red barns would convince observers that life was one big beautiful bundle of happiness. Applied to what looks like amor-plated plants or to blackly sarcastic riffs on signs ("We're sorry already") reads a funeral display, it makes culture seem a wholesale ruin"

- Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News

"Billboards, drive-ins and landscapes are among the touchstones of the exhibition Cold Drive by Toronto painter Kate Wilson, whose excursion is a place where the innocent meets the ominous"

- Canadian Art Magazine, winter 2002