Rachel Friedberg’s encaustic photocollages are poetic and sometimes ironic exchanges between intimate experience and the rigorous language of geometric abstraction. These works — dense fields of dark wax, embedded with black and white photographic fragments and self-negating systems of measure — mediate between “objective” markers of reality and her interior, personal experience. Like her more recent encaustic works, Friedberg’s photocollages are sites of encounter that invite, and then subvert, easy interpretation.

— Patricia G. Berman