excerpt from: New York Times, April 11, 2008
‘HERE COMES THE SUN: LORI ELLISON AND SHARI MENDELSON’
By Roberta Smith

A certain visionary fervor infuses these two artists. Repeating units are favored to excellent effect, whether the transparent circles of plastic joined into sparkling screens and nebulae in Ms. Mendelson’s work, or the fine fields of geometric or organic patterns in Ms. Ellison’s paintings and drawings.