Noir City
These stills, as well as the row of related black and white prints hanging in a separate room, are thick with melodrama and intrigue. A third area [is] made to look like a police desk. Tannen’s installation has a wonderfully moody feel, somewhere between the paintings of Edward Hopper and the environments of Edward Kienholz.
––Leah Ollman, At the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, 21 October 1992, San Diego County edition, Entertainment section.