Featured in the January 2008 issue of Art Calendar magazine, including an in-depth profile of Cone's career and Cone's piece, Backward, on the cover. — view full article

"Cone captivates viewers with strong lines and rich colors that fuel a sort of hyperrealism that is nonetheless decidedly painterly. Flat, abstract geometry frames and isolates her figures, acting as a dramatic counterpoint and alluring background - and adding visual and conceptual depth to her compositions."
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Featured in the October issue of American Art Collector magazine, including a review of Cone's October, 2006 show at Hespe Gallery and Cone's piece, Undone, on the cover. — view full article

"Cone's art is something you never want to miss – unless you're an idiot with no visual taste at all."

Featured in the Art & Antiques 2005-2006 Insider's Guide

Featured in the November 2005 issue of Southwest Art Magazine - "Face Time: Artists' Self-Portraits". — view full article

"If there's a wedge to settle in somewhere between graphic design and fine art, between creepiness and high style, between effusive and minimal, Erin Cone fits nicely. Her sparse and unexpected portraiture and figurative work noodles the edge of physics, with clever interplay between three dimensional subjects and the flat picture plane."

Featured in Santa Fean magazine's June 2005 Special Art Issue as one of Santa Fe's "Five Artists to Watch - Catch Them on the Verge of Making it Big"

"If you want to say you knew them when, you need to catch them now. Keep an eye on these five hot Santa Fe artists who are turning the heads of collectors and curators alike"
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"Though she mostly paints self-portraits or portraits of people close to her-- the figures remain tantalizingly unspecific...her paintings are endless yet enigmatic mirrors of the human condition."
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"Erin Cone is one of the best portraitists in the whole damned world."

"Erin Cone is cool. Her current show up at Wally Workman reveals another step forward in her artistic evolution. Known for her highly stylized, photographically influenced self-portraits, Cone paints contemplative compositions, that remove the figure from a natural context and at the same time seem to pinpoint personal proclivities, or ideas about the self, although in an ambiguous way. Here she employs modernist singular cubes of color (one per painting) that at times break up, highlight or even integrate the human form. (Again, they are portraits of the artist, and in this series, she is always dressed in black.). Cone is interested in shifting perspectives, uncertain interpretations and how each person can "approach" her paintings. Viewers should carefully consider Cone's paintings and discover their own "approach" to these strangely simple yet sensually charged images."

Featured in the April 2005 issue of Art & Antiques magazine

"Erin Cone presents a continuation of the visual-glitch realism that has earned her accolades in the past. Cone's paintings are a perfect flaw in the system."

"Through the intense juxtaposition of positive and negative space, the Erin Cone exhibit offers a rare mixture of minimalism and figural ambiguity. The luminous, sleek images, blended with uncomplicated detail, validate the artist's stated goal of presenting 'simplified compositions and enigmatic emotion.' Cone’s simplicity leads to ambiguity. The facial expressions themselves embody the entrancing, mysterious elements in which the viewer can only speculate."

Featured in Southwest Art Magazine's Sept. 2003 "21 Under 31" - as one of the top emerging artists under thirty-one years of age.
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