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2010   VIE DES ARTS No. 218, The Genie in the Bottle by Dorota Kozinska
2010   PARCOURS ART & ART DE VIVRE, Mémoire Gémellaire by  Louise-Marie Bédard
2010   THE SUBURBAN, April 14, 2010, Snapshots of the Past by Bernard Mendelman
2010   THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS, Artist Paints Past to Have Strength in the Future by Heather Solomon
2009    OPERA GALLERY, Dina Podolsky & Romero Britto, Catalog of Recent Works
2006    VOGUE LIVING, Romantic Movement, September/October 2006
2003    ARTnews, April 2003
2003    BOOK PUBLICATION, Copyright @2003 Opera Gallery, Seeing Memory by Dorota Kozinska
2003    BOOK PUBLICATION, Copyright @2003 Opera Gallery, On meeting Dina Podolsky by Eric Allouche & Gilles Dyan
2002    LA PEINTURE AU QUEBEC DEPUIS LES ANNEES 1960, Robert Bernier, pp.331-332    
2002    PARCOURS L’INFORMATEUR DES ARTS, L’objet du souvenir, Robert Bernier
2002    PARCOURS L'INFORMATEUR, In Her Father's Footsteps and Beyond, Dorota Kozinska    
2002    THE SUBURBAN, Dina's Success More Than Pot Luck, Bernie Mendelman      
2000    N.M. MILLENNIUM COLLECTION Flowers from the Past, WD. Laichas  K. Fowler, N. Stern      
2000    CATALOGUE: Dina Podolsky, Archeology of the Mind, Dorota Kozinska  
2001    E. DITART INTERNATIONAL, p. 625    
2000    THE GAZETTE, Montreal, Winning Numbers, L Moore    
1998    ARTnews, September 1998                     
1998    THE GAZETTE, Objects of her Affection, Dorota Kozinska  
1998    THE GAZETTE, Calendar, Moscow Memories, p. B6      
1998    PASATIEMPO, Painting from personal memory, Craig Smith    
1998    VIE DES ARTS, hiver 1998, Les passe interieur, Bernard Levy  
1997    PARCOURS L’INFORMATEUR DES ARTS, p. 33-34, Passe Compose Virginie Krysztofiak,  
1997    Universities Art Association DES ARTS, of Canada, "Shifting Diaspora", Loren Lerner  
1996    LE NOVELLISTE, Dina Podolsky, R. Paille  
1996    THE GAZETTE, Layers of Life, review, p. E2  
1995    SANTA FE TRIBUNE, The gift of growing up in a creative environment, E. Van Cleve  
1995    PARCOURS   L'INFORMATEUR DES ARTS, Fragments de memoire, Bernard Daoust
1993    MAGAZINART, 55 Peintures canadiennes a Paris, J. Latoulippe  
1992    LA NOUVELLISTE, p. P8 Pour que la memoire ne se perde pas, Andre Gaudreault  
1992    PARCOURS L'INFORMATEUR DES ARTS, pp. 15 m 23, Rencontre du troisieme type, V. Krysztofiak  
1991    LE DEVOIR, Peintres Russes en exil, Borislav Nicolov
1990    THE SUBURBAN, An Artist's remembrance of things through a rag doll, J. Davidson
1990    THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS, p. 32, Artist remembers her past, H. Solomon
1989    MAGAZINART, Les Portraits de famille de Dina Podolsky, Marie- France Begis
1975    JOURNAL TEL-AVIV, Une ceuvre qui s'eleve contre l'aneantissement des valeurs, Zvi Sas
1975    EDYOT ACHARANOT, The Art of D. Podolsky, Miriam Tal
1975    CATALOGUE: Inner Truth and Blue Veil, Miriam Tal
1975    HELLO ISRAEL MAGAZINE,  Unique show at Rozenfeld Gallery

REVIEWS

Dina is relentless in her visual excavations, and her paintings resemble fragments of old frescoes. Their rough, textured surfaces bring to mind ancient murals as if the artist was trying to unearth a memory, scrape it of time’s residue, make it speak again.
This is the mark of Dina Podolsky, of her courage to explore what many would consider insignificant, and of her talent that can transform the mundane into the monumental without ever losing control over the powerful, creative force of art. A true artist, she thus gives homage to the great masters that inspired her as a child and awed her as an adult, and she does it with her own unique touch that combines the old with the new, just as her paintings weave the past with  the present.
Dorota Kozinska, Arts critic & Editor Vie des Arts, Montreal, 2003

These mute figures emerging from the canvas, imbue the paintings with an atmosphere of intimacy and secrecy, creating magical spaces for the eye to wander in. Behind this sensuous and undulating orchestration lies the talent of Dina Podolsky, infusing her mysterious cortege with a touching lightness of being.
Guy Robert, Le Collectionneur, Montreal, 1992

Great painters, like great poets, great artists, and great creators, know the importance of memory. They know that it is the Ariane’s thread that enables them to explore the labyrinth of the inner world, at the heart of which they discover – often to their amazement – their work in its inexpressive completion. They would like to bring it intact to the surface, this work that is the reflection of their being in the mirror of the Being. This work, through which, to use a phrase favored by the mystics, the world and I become one.
Alexis Klimov, Prof. of Russian Literature, Université deTrois-Rivières, 1992

Dina Podolsky fait une peinture aussi originale qu’émouvante, sans une once de mièvrerie et dans des tons mouvant de couleurs sensuelles maîtrisées à la perfection.
André Gaudreault, Trois-Rivières, 1992

The narrative character of certain works, the series of portraits, as well as the use of both monochromatic  palette (beige on sand) and a bi-tonal contrast (red on grege) attest to the artist's pictoral sense and her great mastery of the materials.
In Dina Podolsky's work, the past becomes the present.
Bernard Levy, Vie des Arts, Montreal, 1997

Dina Podolsky creates a world of restrained poetry, meditation and happiness blended with melancholy, and creates immediate communication with the spectator, without making any concessions while maintaining the personal world of the painter.
Miriam Tal, Jerusalem Museum, 1975

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