Robert Lazzarini's sculptures are at once rigorously formal and intensely expressive. As distorted versions of familiar objects, they appear in the process of slipping— from three to two dimensions, from realism to abstraction, from this world to the next.
Products of a dense and innovative process, his works seem both real and unreal: their striking immediacy is belied by a quality of ghostliness, as if they were hardly there at all.
- John B. Ravenal, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, VMFA (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), 2004.