"When I was young, I refused to sign my paintings. I felt as if the World of imagination was larger than myself and by making work I was privileged to access deeper regions that had little to do with the personal me. I still feel the same way, but now sign humbly with my initials."

-Alexandra Eldridge

"Art is the step you are looking at as you climb the staircase of life, not the one you are standing on - we are never as high as what we perceive. In pursuit of the relationship between texture and the mind's eye. I am constantly assessing the perspective of life's staircase. Through translating three-dimensional texture into two dimensional art, I objectively approach each print I make. I create a thick textured image on a smooth plexiglass plate, and then transfer the image on to paper by hand barrening (rubbing) the back of the paper. Because only the peaks of texture make contact with the paper, the valleys leave negative space in the image; and each print then reveals a two-dimensional view of a three-dimensional reality."

-Ari Kalminson