The refined and highly detailed drawings of Eugenie Geb are suffused with a supernatural light which seems to project mystery and foreboding. Like the time of dusk, when long shadows are cast, or moonlight when its ominous qualities are revealed, Geb's work represents harsh starkness and situations of extremes.
Geb's work reveals her exceptional virtuosity with graphite. Her drawings are so meticulously executed that they sometimes take several months to complete. Often Geb creates her drawings using a very painstaking and complex technique. She lifts her images away from the paper using graphite dust, eraser, and paint thinner. The subject matter of Geb's drawings however, is less than perfect. Her work reveals an inauspicious world.
Geb's scenes are mostly of night, relying on moonlight to cast shadows on somewhat sinister places. As a child, the artist became fascinated with dusk, when shadows begin to fall and night is not far away. She loved ghost stories and the supernatural, and, of course, Halloween was her favorite holiday. Isolated places show up subtly in the artist's work. For Geb, they are the true metaphors for peril.
- Karen Hjalmarson (Fall 1995)