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"I spend a lot of time thinking about balance: the visual balance required for successful art, the elusive balance of creativity and survival, and the delicate balance between making things that are simultaneously beautiful and meaningful."
Quilting Arts Magazine
April/May 2009
"From a distance, the works created by Amherst textiles artist Deborah Kruger seem to blend together in their similar shapes, sizes and color schemes. Yet up close, they display details and patterns as if there were a conversation occurring amount the pieces"
Amherst Bulletin
March 21, 2003
"A single one of her smaller pieces looks fanciful, abstractly beautiful and richly imagined - alive with intricate stitching, bright colors and Kruger's over-the-top adoration of the triangle. Two entire rooms filled with them drive home how valuable it is, for artists like Kruger, to land on an idea and then be guided by it."
Daily Hampshire Gazette
March 31, 2003
Kruger's interest in textiles grows out of her training as a textile designer at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York."
Springfield Republican
April 20, 2003
"Kruger is an award-winning fiber artist and nationally recognized speaker. Her presentation explores the overlap between the work of fiber artists and the work of feminist activists."
Amherst Bulletin
October 24, 2003
"Working in wax, resin and pigment, applied to neatly cut slices of colorful fabric, Kruger's fascination with the basic geometry of the triangular form yields a visceral projection of feminine energy that is erotically charged and a marvel of multi-layered design."
Greenfield Recorder
November 11, 2003
