“Brotman’s colors glow. Pitting vibrant reds against metallic blues and warm flesh tones, she causes her figures to jump from the canvas.”
Michael Welzenbach, The Washington Post

“This [Apples and Eve] is a mature and culminating painting by an artist who has been astonishingly consistent since the early 1980’s when she first developed her hot vision.”
Joe Shannon, Art in America

“Lisa Montag Brotman is engaged in serious play. She seduces us with beautiful surfaces and provocative images, and then asks us to examine our reactions.”
Jack Rasmussen, Ph.D., from catalog essay Playing for keeps

“The paintings work wonderfully as pattern and color compositions but the genius of this work is in their psychology.”
Ken Oda, KOAN magazine

“Threatened domesticity is the subject of Lisa Montag Brotman’s small oil paintings, which typically feature schematically rendered interiors whose distorted proportions and loud colors are beautifully alarming… Things don’t get any better outdoors.”
Mike Giuliano, Baltimore City Paper

“With high anticipation we take the road to strangeness, Lisa Brotman’s native land.”
Joe Shannon, catalog essay Realist/Stylist

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