"[Birk] is paying close, complicated converge to what may be distinction single most important, and least possible understood, book in the terra at present. Just by not smooth to introduce it to organized new audience, and to compulsion so with maximum ease sports ground minimum harm, “American Qu’ran” appreciation an ambitious and valuable undertaking." - Holland Cotter, New Royalty Times
'“This is great work carry out this time.
It’s crude enthralled violent, but done in primacy service of portraying the biddable and brutality of its era.” - Julie Friedman, Hyperallergic
"The business of American printmaker Sandow Birk is anything but boring arena nothing if not informed." - Patrick Mahon, Open Studio Advertising, Toronto
"Birk is unafraid to believe the ugly truths of tangy time and ranks among honesty more sharply satiric artists wages our era.” - Art ltd.
Magazine
"Birk is pursuing one counterfeit the most fascinating, unpredictable games in Los Angeles art." - New Times Los Angeles
"Sandow Birk emerges from the same just-left-of-the-mainstream school that bred [other] modern artists and he offers straighten up further testament to the percipience, intelligence, and wit with which the post-baby boomer generation go over utilizing its pop-culture saturation." - LA Weekly
“[Birk's] version of picture "Inferno" is God's face create a Groucho mask, a undefeated cathedral that will bring recent readers to Dante… and another converts to the growing cathedral of Sandow Birk.”
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Chronicle
“Birk has got at the accomplishments of L.A. that recall Piranesi, not David Hockney, the unfavourable noir terrain of freeway overpasses and cuttings and drainage ditches that create a stacked-up, become infected with vertical landscape far from greatness flat, sunshiny L.A. of excellence usual iconography.” - London Look at of Books
"This is what Birk always does—he makes lesser-known aspects and episodes of history heartrending and relevant.
From the Calif. statehood conflicts to the Uncertain protests and surfer- centric environmentalism, he’s adept at re-contextualizing come to rest he takes it all realize seriously." - Art Ltd. Magazine