"Rebecca Whipple's richly-colored drawings are terrific... Using the vocabulary of classic Persian miniatures, Whipple creates mysterious tales of beauty, carnage and unfettered misery in the Middle East.

Her stunning Victory features a mountainous paradise populated by explosions, camels, rams and fleeing human body parts. Surrounding this lurid scene is a flat brown border filled with death from above, a half-dozen Superfortress Bombers raining down hell's fire."

     -Timothy Buckwalter April 2008 KQED Arts & Culture
       

"I first encountered several of Rebecca Whipple's astonishing "Language of War" watercolors during a group show at the San Francisco Art Institute... I found their tenor to be almost uniquely relevant to their topic, the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq."

     -Jeremiah McNichols October 2006 Think in Pictures interview
       Read the interview.