“Nadin Senft’s purpose is to communicate basic human values in a visual vocabulary that opens up the understanding of a frenetic and technological age. In effect, this is achieved by the elements of her work being, in their several parts, structures based upon architectural study of the human form. The realisation that this is so is a matter of immediate apprehension, not of analysis. This is an instantaneous aesthetic perception, a response to a clean-lined and harmonious whole… This immediate response is invited, indeed compelled, to something very like an act of contemplation. The eye ceases to be passive, comes under the control of  thought which is quite disconcertingly entered into a world that does not belong to this or any other century – an ageless world or organic, not mechanical force… If one continues to look and to permits ones mind to find its own insight, another deeper layer is uncovered, a sense of man’s alienation from his natural environment and his own self… In any event, everyone, in varying degrees, must become aware of the contained power which emanates from her work.”

 

Art Critic, Richard Walker

“…In any work of art… we may expect to encounter a historic perspective, an empathy with material; and an original cast of mind which is both analytic and integrative. Nadin Senft’s sculpture embodies these elements. Discipline and focus of attention enable her to expand her repertoire in logical progression with an abiding sense of history. Her form speaks to us, practically and psychologically, of our connections with the world. Nadin Senft reveals in her work an openness of nature and a plasticity of thought. Her hard-edge structures meld into arcs and semi-spheres without interruption of rhythm or form. Like choreography her dramatic presentations are ever-mindful of light and form, shadow and space, weight and motion. A strong duality underscores her themes: force and counterforce, togetherness separateness, inner search and outer élan… Energy, commitment and control are in generous supply… Her work generates honesty, integrity and imagination.”

 

Rita Shacknove (U.S.A)