“I’ve always been interested in the duality of painting – how paintings occupy their own inherent space and time on a two-dimensional plane and simultaneously occupy space and time in our minds, when we project our own ideas and thoughts onto them. I believe that this two-way reflection is the primary means by which we derive meaning from a work of art; we give the work meaning and through our own interpretation - filtered through our individual experience and psyche - the work projects ourselves back at us. My paintings are two-way mirrors. The space is minimal and the figures are deconstructed to their most basic form so that their identities are interchangeable and ambiguous. The identity of a figure is only realized in the presence of the viewer.” - Jon Campbell "Campbell is primarily interested in disjunction. His paintings represent a downward slide, from formal perfection to deformity and mutilation, or just plain wrongness. The human figure serves as the foundation of Campbell's pictorial interest, but even in the straightforward portraits ... the final execution seems to serve as a departure point for probing issues of a more existential nature." - Travis Jeppesen