Gary Goldstein wrote

Yael draws dark, very grim, burdensome paintings.

She is inspired by abstract expressionism and the traditional tensions between imaging and abstraction.

She deals with themes of flatness and the dynamic location of forms.

She emphasizes texture as an expressive element.

Color and texture in her works have a powerful, cruel quality.

The works create a sensation of rot, decaying of flesh and organic matter.

The graphic space is nearly claustrophobic.

The characters are trapped in the flatness of the space.

They struggle to break out of the two-dimensional plane into the three-dimensional space and collapse back into flatness.

The characters are anonymous, lacking facial features or gender.

The human identity is created by turning the color into a sensation of flesh and by a distorted, painful contour.

Yael also deals with her paintings as physical objects. Her frames are like sculptures - real boxes.

This positioning intentionally almost destroys the illusion of depth,

thus, connecting Yael to self-awareness and postmodern skepticism towards painting as an expressive media.