SANTA BARBARA NEWS-PRESS January 19, 2007

"Traditional measures of critical appraisal only barely apply when viewing “Friend & Family Show,” the group show currently in the Harris and Fredda Meisel Gallery of Art in the Rehabilitation Institute of Santa Barbara. In part, the wide diversity of artistic quality and levels of seriousness relate to the very nature of the show’s participants, both amateur and professional, who are all former patients, employees or friends of the institute. Kathleen Elsey is a member of the group known as the American Impressionist Society, and she brings her own impressionistic stamp to outdoorsy work. But there’s a range of expressive values entailed in that asserted sense of personalized style. Subtler means prevail in Old Barn, Sedgwick, with its smart composition and softer harmonic color scheme."

— Josef Woodward