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“Trickier, perhaps is to ponder one’s own prejudices after a chat with the artist, whose friendly, thoughtful manner belies the stereotype of the shrill shockaholic. It’s exactly that sense of the unexpected, and the disquiet that can accompany it, that drives Ms. Dobkin’s work.”

– Anthony Reinhart The Globe and Mail

“Jess Dobkin’s performances are consistently clever and wacky. Her Attending bathroom performance during the last Toronto International Art Fair vexed security officers, The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar stirred media frenzy, and the Vagina Dentata during Nuit Blanche was nothing short of amazing. It is not shock art, it’s an intelligent discourse on women’s bodies and public space.”

– Best of Toronto – Best Performance Artist, Jess Dobkin NOW Toronto

“In truth, you have no choice but to love Jess Dobkin. A Toronto-based performance artist with a wicked sense of humour, strong social conscience, and what must be a left brain the size of Manitoba, Dobkin has dazzled audiences across North America.”

– Mariko Tamaki Kiss Machine

“Dobkin is an amazing performer with truly a unique perspective on women, motherhood and sexuality.”

– Best Performance Art: Jess Dobkin X-tra

“Top 10 Art Shows of 2006: Jess Dobkin, The Lactation Station”

NOW Toronto

“But the performance that stood out was Jess Dobkin’s… It was so unexpected and so brilliant yet done with such pathos, a finely tuned combination of the comic and the tragic that tickled the audience to tears.”

– Leila Peacock Dfdanse