March 2000, by Michael Weinstein, New City

"Through a dizzying sequence of alterations and manipulations of her base color photographic images of flowers, cityscapes and meditative female nudes, Tricia Koning ends up with photo works that look like vivid Modernist paintings and drawings, bearing nary a trace of their provenance. The strongest of Koning’s images are her nudes, usually captured in yoga-like poses and first minimalized to defining lines and then enriched with bright colors that stand in for finely delineated features and expressions. Unlike most attempts to transform photographs into more intimate visual images, Koning’s confections are subtle, supple and expressive: in her standard-bearing image, "Magnetic, " we see a glowing pale-yellow woman, defined by incandescent white lines and bathed in a burnt-orange background through which blue balloons float, as she assumes the warrior’s posture.


August 2004, by Michael Weinstein, New City

Dividing her passion for beauty between the female body and flowers, Tricia Koning layers color negatives of her subjects, etches and paints them, and then prints them as elegant minitures that evoke a feeling of modest sensuality. Koning’s most recent images are more complex than her earlier efforts, synthesizing her two devotions by embedding the female form-presented in flowing outline- whithin tangled floral backgrounds. Always drawn to a mythic and transcendental sensibility, Koning seems to have settled for the moment on the forest nymph as her archetype. Depicted in warm browns and golds, Koning’s nymphs take refuge behind thickets of luxurious vegetation, bending over to examine the flowers, reclining seductively, crouching with doe-like vulnerability, and dancing with one another in a fantasy world all their own. -Michael Weinstein