Jane Eifler - "My work begins with the construction of a language of abstract forms using the images that inhabit my social environment, a world informed by my personal encounters with popular culture. These forms draw from the history of abstraction: biomorphic, geometric, decorative and illusionistic, but assume human attributes as they crowd, press, fly and hide. Are they anxious, cooperative, or simply surveying their space?

I sort, stack, stretch, and otherwise manipulate these forms, and finally knit them into a system suggesting a pattern, an interaction, a narrative. This system forms the matrix that anchors my painting: an ordering of complexity."

Jon Von Letscher - "I have a very active imagination often overun by day to day issues, obligations and social interactions. When I work on paintings I try to be in the moment completely. When all of the nagging voices shut off for some reason images flow out of me effectively. These images obviously reflect all of those nagging voices but in an indirect way. I guess that is channeling your subconscious mind as some would say. I must say I enjoy being in that state more than anything in life. For an instant it feels like everything matters so intensely that it doesn't matter at all and I'm at peace."