Featured Press

An Interview With: Melinda Braathen. Roadwork Studio. February 4, 2025.

New American Paintings

Issue no. 175: Pacific Coast | Juried by Jerry Saltz

Open Studios Press
December 2024 / January 2025

In Conversation with a "Super Mom": Melinda Braathen

Finding creativity through rituals as an artist and as a mother, adapting to a non-toxic practice, staying grounded with meditations and cooking nourishing simple foods.

Marina Strigari, Geewees
September 5, 2025

Paintings That Capture the Full Force of Nature

There’s nothing still in Melinda Braathen’s still lifes, which are lush and alive, growing, pulsing, vibrating.

Renée Reizman, Hyperallergic
March 11, 2024

All work © Melinda Braathen