Boston Herald, June 7, 2002 Photo Exhibit Makes You Feel at 'Home'
  With the aid of a pinhole camera’s long exposure, Ri Anderson documents herself in places that served as temporary homes as she traveled through South India. ‘Rice Boat, Kerala Backwaters’ transforms a bedroom scene into a floating world, framed by woven rattan, where human bodies are no more substantial than the dizzying sunlight beyond a cotton curtain. [Joanne Silver]
 
Boston Globe, Sept. 27, 2001 Pinhole Vision
  ‘Pinhole Madness,’ at the Lillian Immig Gallery at Emmanuel College, gives us a mysticism that feels more rooted and real. Four photographers who specialize in pinhole photography – pictures made with no lens, only the spray of light through a tiny hole onto photographic paper – offer particular bodies of work that attest to the unpredictable, improvisational nature of this kind of work.
  Ri Anderson, whose previous projects included setting herself up as a corpse at a crime scene, again uses the figure to provocative and mysterious means. She shot these images in India. With long exposures, what was immobile appears solid, and what moved looks ghostly. Some images speak to India’s antiquity, and the fleeting passage of humans through its land. Others are more personal: ‘Fornication Room’ shows a bed in a hotel room, the sheets tousled. Shadowy figures suggest but do not define a presence on the bed; it could be one person, or two. [Cate McQuaid
 
Boston Phoenix, Sept. 14, 2001 Pinhole Madness
  Emmanuel College’s ‘Pinhole Madness,’ one of the least hyped and most important exhibits this fall in Boston… [Christopher Millis]
 
Time Out New York, Aug. 10-17, 2000 Small-Town Color
  ....Founded in 1990, the Contemporary Artists Center at Historic Beaver Mill (189 Beaver St, 413-663-9555) administers a residency program for artists, operates several local galleries and sponsors an annual series of installations in downtown store windows. At the time of our visit, a series of photos by artist Ri Anderson, hanging in the Loading Dock Gallerty on Beaver Mill's ground floor, showed a skinny adolescent girl, tattooed with what looks like a winged frog, in various dramatic poses... the portrayal of small-town teen culture range true. [Valerie Stivers]
 
Boston Sunday Globe, July 23, 2000 Art's the Big Idea in North Adams
  …This summer, CAC [Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, MA] has invited the DeCordova Museum’s associate curator, Nick Capasso, to bring artists to North Adams and throw their imaginations into portraying the community.
  The result, ‘What’s the Big Idea?’ is a series of public-art installations….
  Ri Anderson photographs herself as a dead body in haunting, complex black-and-white images set in North Adams. Two have been blown into banners; one hangs on the CAC’s outside wall along Route 8, the other in a gallery window on Eagle Street. The latter shows Anderson splayed on the street in white outside the old Mohawk Theater, lit by the headlights of a dark car. Showing death, and possibly murder, in the familiar haunts of this small city, she suggests the seam of violence that runs through any town. (cont.)
 
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