About Aristova work, art critic Ed McCormack wrote: “Indeed the textures that Aristova achieves with needle and thread can be accurately compared to [Color Field painter Jules] Olitski’s use of painterly impasto to lend his canvases tactile weight and depth. For not only does she combine fabrics such as silk and cotton but also combines hand-painting with dyed materials to create complex chromatic contrasts that are considerably enhanced by painstaking hand-stitching with different colored threads. Indeed, no painter has at his or her disposal a more richly varied arsenal of subtle textural and coloristic effects. … like Kandinsky… Aristova obviously realizes that pure form and color, like music, can be transmitters of emotion.”
“The tactile sensuousness of the works is every bit as impressive as their color richness. This is especially evident in her recent works on a small scale, from four to twelve inches square, wherein she appears to be testing the possibilities of creating more Minimalist compositions. She employs folds of fabric configured in various directions to create rhythmic and sensual compositions evoking the sense of a much larger scale.”