"For those who like their ballet pretty...Brenda R. Neville offer piece(s) that flaunt its beauty...The three women in Neville's Colorplay are costumed like they've stepped out of a Bournonville ballet: primary-colored tutus with flowers tucked into their buns. Against Courtney Puckett’s fanciful Connect Four-like backdrop, the trio executes crisp soutenu turns and whip-fast fouettés, the lifted leg ramrod straight as their bodies switch directions."

"This Spring Norte Maar’s CounterPointe is all about collaboration with the work of 7 female dance makers paired with 7 visual artists on stage April 8-10 in downtown Brooklyn’s Actors Fund Arts Center."

Artists included:
Alice Adams, Margery Amdur, Rachel Beach, Charlotte Becket, Sarah Bednarek, Louise Bourgeois, Amy Brener, Amanda Browder, Nicole Cherubini, Lauren Clay, Diana Cooper, Petah Coyne, Joy Curtis, Kate Starbuck Elliot, Stacy Fisher, Martha Friedman, Rachel Higgins, Kristen Jensen, Katy Krantz, Denise Kupferschmidt, Emily Noelle Lambert, Katerina Lanfranco, Fabienne Lasserre, Elisa Lendvay, Jill Levine, Esperanza Mayobre, Shari Mendelson, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Megan Pahmier, Claudia Peña Salinas, Sheila Pepe, Meridith Pingree, Courtney Puckett, Carolyn Salas, Gabriela Salazar, Lisa Schilling, Judith Scott, Michelle Segre, Shinique Smith, Courtney Tramposh, and Eileen Weitzman.

“Drawing for Sculpture is an immersive environment; a library of plans, observations, thoughts, doodles, maps. I regard drawing expansively as two-dimensional conceptual support for three-dimensional form. My invitation to the artists assumes drawing plays a role whether major (works in and of themselves) or minor (doodles in sketchbook). These artists opened their studios to me and bravely shared the raw edges of their process, the vulnerability of their ideas, the ‘real’ work behind the work that get’s shown.”
- Courtney Puckett 2016

"The organization of this show is a librarian’s dream...a visual Dewey Decimal System. The drawings are arranged in alphabetical order on a grid, which operates as an ultimate studio visit.....Puckett has put together a show that is strong with scope and variety, which happens to be all female without making it the focus of the show. There is a lot to take in here, and the art is enough."

"Variation is...the name of the game at Bushwick’s Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Curated by Courtney Puckett, “Drawing for Sculpture” describes the show succinctly; it’s show of drawings by more than 40 sculptors, complete with a zine that includes images of artist studios and art work. Rather than endlessly arrange a bunch of work that’s been assembled for a simple purpose, Puckett organizes the show alphabetically. She allocates a square space to each on the wall, and hangs the work accordingly...With that much variation, there’s a little something for everyone in the show."

"...Courtney Puckett‘s “Happy Sad Shield” (2014) — whose enormous gridded assemblage of found materials sheathed in yellow thread calls to mind the work of Judith Scott, and from a certain angle coalesces into the titular happy and sad faces — commands the main wall in the kitchen."

"Happy Sad Shield is a large yellow piece by Courtney Puckett that leans against the Parlour’s kitchen wall. It feels like a functional object and not so out of place within the home environment. The fabric and thread wrapped wood piece has a human scale. The grid throughout makes the piece look strong enough to hold a body, like a stretcher. It sits, again effortlessly, near the back door, ready for an emergency."

"Drawing from a scope of ideas...the artists in this show blend and appropriate these images to create something uncommon, fresh, and contradictory. Speaking with a language of materials that carry weighted associations, such as ceramics, papier-mache and yarn, these artists push beyond and subvert the notions traditionally associated with this media and femininity to create works that are current, evocative and sublime."

"Handmade Abstract brings together 13 emerging and mid-career artists who are dedicated to the visual language of abstraction and whose work emphasizes the handcrafted nature of the art and processes of fabrication. The exhibition focused on work that was inspired by the quality and physical nature of its materials and at times shows the influence of crafting techniques; merging the abstract form with a sense of the handmade, tactile, quirky, and personal."

"This exhibition challenges our notion of "home" and what it signifies."

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