“Treating words as found objects or sculptural material, Turato paints decontextualized snippets of language — culled from sources including social media posts and exhibition press releases — onto multipart steel panels or directly onto the gallery wall.”

– Hyperallergic

“govern me harder asks us about the health of our tools for making and conveying meaning, and particularly how we might salvage and restore the unique potency of words to communicate novelty rather than reproduce ever-glossier iterations of something we have seen before.”

– The Brooklyn Rail

“Torato shows us how language can be expanded outside coherency, finding its own freedom.”

– Cura Magazine

“No artist dominated New York this spring quite like Nora Turato.”

– ARTnews

“Although Turato’s works have a commercially slick appearance, they were stencilled and painted by hand—perhaps it’s that arduous process that lends her open-ended found phrases their strangely intimate, incantatory quality.”

– The New Yorker

“graphically dazzling exhibition...”

– The New Yorker

“We are living in an inter-textual world, Turato seems to wink at us, and she is an intertextual girl."

– Homme Girls

“Meticulous as Helen and tricky as Odysseus, the artist invites us first to misread the slick surfaces and humor of her works as effortless, then forces us to attend to the laborious practices they belie, the histories and possibilities of that effort.”

– Art in America

“In Turato’s world, print and performance are an inseparable and insufferable couple with words between them.”

– Cultured Magazine