“In her microcosms, Pantelis finds something all-encompassing. . . parables of ecological peril and promise”— Mark Jenkins, art critic for the Washington Post, commenting on the series Of Water too are the Grasses

“What I love about … Irene’s work is that sense of absolute clarity, you can look at these things as if they are real objects that exist in the world, and yet you know they are absolutely not, they are absolute inventions or metaphors for some change or transformation, they are just so beautiful, and so present…” — Mark Scala, Chief Curator of the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, curating for the Slocumb Galleries, commenting on Mineral Roots and Moist