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Artscope / Martins - cover page review - March/April 2015
"[Matt Brackett is] a master at freezing-up uncertainty and forcing the viewer to ponder what will
happen next. This approach is challenging and beautifully uncomfortable, telling us something
about the artist's sly temperament."
Matt Brackett: New Waters / Roscio - wall text - March 2014
"Matt Brackett’s work is a striking combination of the real and surreal. Drawing from landscape
traditions throughout art history, his paintings are masterful compositions of form and light,
threading personal and family narratives to create a realistic, yet alternate reality."
100 Boston Artists / Frenn - curated independent catalog - July 2013
Matt Brackett is featured in a curated compendium of notable Boston artists.
New American Paintings #80 / Mergel - catalog - March 2009
"Matt Brackett presents individuals in idyllically rendered landscapes subject to some unseen
psychological or supernatural planetary unraveling: David Lynch scenarios in a Thomas Eakins
light."
Art New England / Consoli - cover page review - April/May 2008
"Matt Brackett's narrative works move the viewer beyond the boundaries of the canvas itself, but
they engage equally with the painted surface and the insistence of luminosity below the hidden
waters."
Art New England / Faxon - June/July 2006
"All of these paintings, though realistic or in some cases surrealistic, are really about the
handling of space and light. Brackett decidedly updates and moves the tradition of American
landscape painting into the twenty-first century. Beneath the beautifully painted surfaces
enigmas and questions abound."
The Boston Globe Magazine / McQuaid - March 19, 2006
"One painting, from idea to canvas to wall." A recounting of the painting Bedtime Story, from
genesis to purchase by a collector.
The Boston Globe / McQuaid - February 16, 2006
"...Brackett casts the glowing white of the house's lights against the electric blue that fills the sky
just after the sun sets. He milks the magic and portent of that moment, which is neither night nor
day, a time when unpredictable things can happen. In Brackett's paintings, they do."
The Duxbury Reporter / Filcman - March 23, 2005
"It came as a complete surprise to both mother and son, they said, that they were sharing a
dominant subject matter in their works."
The Art Complex Museum - exhibition essay - 2005
"Rendered with light, intense color and emotionally charged perspectives reminiscent of
Caravaggio, [Brackett's] characters actively grapple with the story of the house and its
occupants, yet leave no easy answers for the viewer."