[1][2][3] The AllMusic review by David Dupont said "With Chasing Paint, Jane Ira Bloom offers a follow-up to her well-received Red Quartets session of 1999.

Returning with the same cast, Bloom offers a sound portrait of abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.

... With Chasing Paint, Bloom creates a series of complementary pieces that have the coherence and sweep of an extended work".

[4] Jeff Simon of The Buffalo News added, "...And if Pollock could come back to life one night and hear Bloom play "The Sweetest Sounds" for him, I think his furious, questing heart would melt.

The result is a series of dense, explorative compositions, the faultless execution of which delineates the thoroughly progressive and acutely perspicacious nature of Bloom’s writing",[9] In JazzTimes, Nate Chinen wrote "the album conveys a meticulous air even as it heeds jazz’s freer impulses.