EXCERPT FROM:
The Boston Globe, December 30, 2005
Year brought prolific creativity, cultivated and row (The best od 2005)

By Christine Temin

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Denise Marika’s stirring video installation was set in the darkened Howard Yezerski Gallery. “Detritus” featured a double exposure of a building being demolished set over the nude, curled-up body of a women; she might have been an egg in a nest that was methodically being destroyed.

“Gnaw” put the viewer face to face with a women buried in the earth and disturbingly eating her way to the surface. Marika continues to unsettle with the daunting vulnerability and sheer tenacity of her subjects...