The painting is what he creates….If Pollock and others from the abstract expressionist school freed line and form from their traditional roles in painting, Radebaugh has responded to their spontaneity and extended it with his almost self-conscious linear detailing." Jeanne Shoaf, curator of art at the Lincoln Center Art Gallery, wrote that "Radebaugh’s complex patterns of negative and positive space capture the stark shadow and light of the plains. The resulting landscapes shape-shift between abstraction and representation, echoing the glints of sun off the shining sea. Ultimately, he makes visible the ghostlike imprint of the sea across the horizon of these Great Plains." According to Mary Tsiongas, professor of art, University of New Mexico, "Radebaugh re-members the geological past and encodes it in pigment and strokes in the surfaces of these works. . . . Radebaugh paints to translate the experience [of landscape] beyond light, beyond form, to somehow activate our senses and engage us, too, in the long and intricate history of the places he paints.”