Between These Moments
..........I found myself making the final selections for this exhibition, positing me alone between these moments of looking back on the pandemic and looking forward into the future. The peri and post-COVID transition between Liz Brozell's "Urban Mom" to "Looking for Work" to Mariet Braakman's abstracted landscapes in "The Void in the Unknown #4 and #7" and each of the contemplative figurations were all clear and present moments of reflection for me........
Faith J McKinnie
juror,
Axis 16th National Juried Exhibition
August 2021
Inspired by nature, Mariet Braakman references the landscape as a point of departure for her artistic explorations. Through an intuitive and subconscious process, she creates works that encompass a melding of memories, feelings and lived experiences. Paintings like No Boundaries #13 hover between abstraction and representation, suggesting both familiar, essential forms and those that are imagined.
David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
May-September 2016
........ Mariet Braakman exhibits an evocative large drawing, called Land of Memories #13 (2006) in which a large rock has fallen between two vertical forms, consisting of a multitude of small graphite lines. The rock on its downward journey is stuck in this memorable symbol of frustration......
Peter Selz
The Berkeley Daily Planet
September 3, 2009