Charles Marowitz, Critic and Author

" Marta's abstracts look like Picasso gone mad. It's like painting in another language and there is no lexicon to effect translation. Very powerful stuff! Convey my genuine admiration. "

Matt Franichevich, Hurricane Katrina Survivor, New Orleans, LA

" I wish the storm had not taken the 'Silver Bird.' I found her only after the canvas was beneath water for weeks. I hadn't the heart to dispose of her so I brought her remains to my patio. Waterlogged when dried by the sun, she became brittle and soon disintegrated to be scattered by the four winds. Later that evening I thought you were the closest I would come to meeting Van Gogh. Artistically, the 'Silver Bird ' meant more to me than the house. "

Gregory Benford, Author of DEEP TIME, Professor of physics, UCI

" Her daring use of color and form calls up both dreams and nightmares: big, striking works that invite your own immersion in the form. She has mastered a method of viewer involvement I have seldom seen matched. "

Ann Pellegrini, Associate Professor of Religious Studies & Performance Studies, New York University

" Whistler makes witty and bold use of color and form to open fresh vistas on gender and the body. These are warm, inviting, and challenging works. "

Critical Theorist Bryan Reynolds, Irvine, CA

" An encounter with the paintings of Marta Whistler arouses liberation from a quagmire of conceptual-emotional entanglements that one only becomes aware of through the comings-to-be-others and goings-elsewheres for which her titillating humanimal cartography provides lines of exploration. Of this, I cannot get enough. "

Richard Brestoff, Author of THE CAMERA SMART ACTOR; ACTING UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES and other works

" Marta Whistler is able, in all of the styles in which she works, to combine beauty of color, line and composition with subject matter that evokes emotion in the viewer. This is true from the most abstract of her paintings to the most representational. Emotion and passion set her work apart. Sometimes you are calmed by her vision and sometimes startled, but you are never left unaffected. "

Robert Cohen, Claire Trevor Professor of Drama, University of California, Irvine

" Paints with vivid, passionate assurance

Painter/Critic Aleksandar Kumric, Belgrade Yugoslavia:

"A well formed talent powerful and shocking with my strong prediction of complete recognition by the end of the century."

Art Critic R.K.H, The Netherlands:

"Full command to express loneliness and spiritual non-freedom that leads to suffocation of the mind."

Art Critic Willem Coumans, The Netherlands:

"Talented, strong and powerful statements, shocking effect, a born artist and philosopher of life."

Art Critic Usias Nooteboom, The Netherlands:

"Strong emotional statements, attractive and in many ways Clever."

Hanay Geiogamah, Artistic Director America Theater Ensemble:

"Superb semi-abstract woodcuts, based on the Central Arawak and Mayan mythology."

M.A. Hagestrand, Museum Director The Cherokee National Historical Society:

"Excellent semi-abstract woodcuts based on the Trail of Tears."

Emilio Amero, Master Printmaker and Painter:

 "Extremely strong and powerful shocking effect. A good feeling of balance and composition."

George Sutton, Curator Museum of Science and History, and renowned documentary bird illustrator:

 "An artist with tremendous strength and power"

Kansas cultural arts commision,The national endowment for the arts, and the Winfield art council:

The University of Oklahoma Fine Arts Museum

Sue Hayes .journalist, Aiken South Carolina

"Bold paintings are her trademark"
"An imagination and a ability to project an unconventional philosophy of life. An upcoming artist with a strong and well formed talent, which captures the underlying stream of human emotion."

John Brandenburg, Susan Skull, Norman Oklahoma cable T.V.

New Orleans National Woman's History Month  March 4,1998

"The enterprising woman, visions of excellence."