Hackett has titled her show "I forget now what this is all about . . .," quoting the 19th century critic John Ruskin, champion of all things pagan and fierce enemy of standardization. These are paintings drunk on painting, and gimlet-eyed to boot.

Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times

Hackett’s canvases are a veritable painter's toolbox, as much drawing as painting, a regeneration of the history, languages and possibilities of painting.

Max Presneill, Discovery –The paintings of Mary Addison Hackett

The centerpiece of the show is an installation of sketches and notes created by Los Angeles artist Mary Addison Hackett... There’s irony and sarcasm aplenty and it’s hard to know if you should laugh or reflect with a long, knowing pause.

Nick Sousanis, The Detroiter

Using a vocabulary of abstract shapes that she pins to the wall in potentially infinite juxtapositions, her work confronts painting’s historic tendency toward the frozen pictorial canvas and alternatively suggest the possibility of movement and variability.

Anne Ellegood, New American Paintings, #49