From her exhibition "Femine Abstractions" last summer to her installation “Mediterranean Sea Scroll,” there is both an exuberance and a transitory feeling to Ossman’s work – the spirit of the traveler, both the physical and the emotional aspects – infuses it. And, these works are also powerfully enriched through Ossman’s vibrant cultural and societal exploration in anthropology.

 

Genie Davis

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Ossman is preoccupied with space. Both physical and metaphorical. The work has a strong sense of place, but at the same time, the depictions of fabric produce a feeling of impermanence and shape‑shifting evocative of transient lives where landscape, language and a sense of self are forever being renegotiated...The inclusion of text in several languages leads us to perceive it primarily as a visual and conceptual cipher for language itself with its potential for creating parallel universes and shifts of meaning in translation.

 

Natalia Zagorska-Thomas

Overall the palette is warm and consistent throughout, not of goldenrod but of turmeric, that shifts to a spring green and aqua. There are hints at form, their compositional placement a fuzzy impressionist suggestion of fence or open-air landscape. The color moves like plumes. Her painting weaves in and out, subtle hints of depth through contrast of the stroke and blend of paint. The brush work has a linear quality which the artist moves across the picture plane as if waving a wand

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Jacqueline Bell Johnson

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