"How often do we encounter an artist who is reinvigorating painting? Such instances are exceedingly rare. Nevertheless, I’m sticking my neck out for Jutta Haeckel, a 50-year-old Düsseldorf artist who’s developed an innovative approach. Her process, a mix of abstraction and representation, begins with jute whose threads she pries apart to create loose scaffolds onto which she suspends dense topographies — achieved by pushing paint through the grid from the rear and by projecting abstract images onto the front which she paints realistically. Surfaces, dotted with clusters of neon-colored nubs that protrude outward through the weave at low relief, resemble pin maps of the sort once seen in televised police procedurals. You’d be hard-pressed to find more intensely worked paintings."
- David Roth, SquareCylinder.com
