"This is art meant to evince the inner psyche, that brew of experiences, is memories, fears, passions, comforts, sorrows and joys. Aware that human personality to a seething compound of contradictions, Formica has sought a vivid pictorial language communicate her exploration of the self."

GLORIA RUSSEL, SPRINGFIELD UNION

"Jennifer Formica uses detailed photographs of such subjects such as fish, embryos, and insects to reveal the hidden beauty of the colors, textures and forms of organic matter. Her unique talent is to show the viewer something profound and awe-inspiring in material that might otherwise escape notice."

ROB TAUBE, BROOKLYN SKYLINE

"Formica's science fiction gives a slimy new twist to the memento mori, a typical Renaissance theme however we almost struggle to be repulsed. Slithering vermin look fascinating here, even in their familiar context of rotting leaves and moist earth."

MARC MAYER, ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY

“Something about her “Drosophila”, a glowing blur of a fly with wings folded in and head tucked , looks eerily like a fetal ultrasound. “Lily Ovulary Megasporocyte” shows a single cell blown up against a black ground in a spectacle of yellow and green, blotted with electric purples.”

CATE MCQUAID, BOSTON GLOBE

"She combines aspects of abstraction with the charged fascination and repulsion of biological
forms. It's kind of like lifting up rocks looking for bugs and finding a Jules Olitski, or maybe the reverse."

MATHIEU VICTOR, ARTVOICE

"The photograph mesmerizes the viewer with
the sensual pleasures of its colors and ductile substance that are subsequently discovered
to represent viscous dimension embedded with
candles and wax worms. In both series, we only
secondarily reckon with the fact that these seductive icons of surface are emblems of death and decay."

ARLETTE KLARIC, BURCHFIELD-PENNEY ART CENTER

"The color alone is fabulous - purple and lavenders, oranges and reds - but even more visceral are details like the denting of the surface-tension of water, or gel or plastic or some such crystalline substance, under the soft, coppery bodies of the worms."

PATRICIA WRIGHT, HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE

"Alluring photographs that make us struggle not to find them unlikeable."

MANIA APOSTOLOPOULOU, MONEY & LIFE MAGAZINE

"Among those unlikeable forms of life, beautiful flowers with strong color are strewed creating an
amazing aesthetic, but also sentimental opposition."

SUSAN SOFIE, AXIA CHRIMATISTRIAKI

"The fish-in-slime imagery of Jennifer Formica's "In Search of the Aquatic 'see' Nymph" may also repulse a few tender souls, despite the photograph's beautiful formal presence."

RICHARD HUNTINGTON, BUFFALO NEWS

"The narrow depth of field of the toy microscope imbues the objects with a sense of mystery and universality, while the extreme change in scale makes something meek into something monumental. Science in its purest form is meant to answer questions for the sake of knowledge, much as a child asks questions simply to know."

PERRY KIRK, ESSENCE: MATTER/SCIENCE/PHOTOGRAPHY