Excerpts from Catalogue Essays:

“...Schwartz works with aura: radiant emanation is her subject matter, detached from any object, however many objects it may imbue, like a kind of visual perfume, and objectified as luminous, yearning color and atmosphere….The sense of ecstatic reverie that pervades Schwartz’s works, the visionary quality of their fantasy, their expressive fervor and air of baroque excess, suggest a kind of idealism and pleasure....”

from Buried Pleasures: "The Female Redivivus" by Donald Kuspit

“...These paintings are highly decorative, in the non-pejorative sense of that word, and the viewer may enjoy them on that level. But there is a complexity in the works that rewards lengthy viewing, both in terms of craft and imagery....”

from "Kissing with Eyes Open: The Art of Rosalyn Schwartz" by Reagan Upshaw

“...Operating at the edge of abstraction, Schwartz’s work contains a variety of recognizable images that seem to emerge, almost by accident, from the confluence of medium and color. Yet there is nothing accidental in the emotional intensity of her art. Its willful voluptuousness speaks of desire and longing, of appetites for which the paintings are succor....”

from "The V Series" by Buzz Spector

"...Schwartz's paintings present a non-pejorative duality between the earth-bound, sensual qualities of botanical viscera, and the weightless, transcendent, and spiritually suggestive quality of glowing, colored light...."

from "Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants" by Peter Spooner