See Border Crossing's Review of Amy Schissel's 'Alternate Futures' at Patrick Mikhail Gallery.

“Cosmography” is the word that came to mind as I stepped into Amy Schissel’s recent exhibition. Spanning from floor to ceiling, Schissel’s black and white works on paper scintillate like a planetarium clustered with stars. Up close, they overwhelm with kinetic energy and intricate detail. Lines, circles, drips, dots, loops and pixels combine to map impossibly complex geographies in which suggestions of mountains, rivers, waterfalls, snow drifts, constellations and distant galaxies compete with dizzying renderings of digital noise. What strange world might all these frenzied marks suggest? Without initially understanding why, I somehow knew it was our own." - Read More, by Ara Asterweil.