review on artaustin.org (unknown writer):

See it … Over and Over and Again and Again!
Carefully and cleverly constructed creations make a big impact in one of AMOA'S current offerings, Over + Over: Passion for Process. Work by artists obsessed with repetition of form impresses audiences and shows to full advantage. Fixation on repetition of form can enliven artwork, as it provides syncopation, rhythm, enforcement, and exclamation. It also highlights process or perhaps here, it's the other way around - the artists' process reveals their obsession with repetition.
Jennifer Maestre's Dadaesque "Spine," is an incredible anthropomorphic sculpture made from stacked stubs of pencils with sharpened points oriented outwards suggesting a cautionary surface.
Another standout, Lisa Hokes' "Gravity of Color" is a large-scale installation of colorful cups arranged in swooping undulating curves and patterns akin to an Abstract Expressionist gestures. Many of the cups have swirled paint in them -combining painterly touches with found object use.
The key to this work is that the artists simply don't employ repetition of materials and/or technique. Each of them somehow pushes form and process at least one step further - and many times more - moving the end results beyond multiple random occurrences and into meaningful statements, often tinged with play.
Hung alongside Over + Over is Again + Again, a group of video artworks selected by AMOA's Chief Curator, Dana Friis-Hansen. Works like Dane Picard's "Vincent Van Gogh: 42 Self Portraits" clearly demonstrate the idea of psychological transformation through repetition, while Jennifer Steinkamp's "Paint the Lily I," a projection of moving flowers, works more subtly to address intersections between nature and technology as well as the quiet mechanizations and permutations occurring in nature and time, "again and again."
Over + Over: Passion for Process and Again + Again: Cycles in Video and Light will be on view at Austin Museum of Art through Sunday, August 6, 2006. For more information, call (512) 495-9224.