Nancy Sausser, Director of the Emerson Gallery at the McLean Center for the Arts, writes “As an artist, Whiteley shows us her respect for the past, pays homage to it in these works, yet remains firmly rooted in the present as well. These are quiet drawings, not to be passed by quickly. Take note of their technical precision and mastery, the subtle references and layering of ideas, the joining of the old with the new, and their simple, distinctive beauty.”