"Initially I had the idea to think of the two floors as the dual sides of a personality. Personalities usually have more than two sides, but for the sake of the show, I thought that it could be generalized into two. There is a bit of an embarrassment to such a basic idea, but I think often good things come out of bad ideas. It’s like the old axiom: bad ideas make good art (and its sister axiom: good ideas make bad art). This has often been an interest of mine, to take something so strongly and magnetically attached to an already ordained idea and somehow wrench it free. Twenty years ago, I was interested in cutting the canvas, a gesture that in the year 2000 could only be seen as a reference to Lucio Fontana. But how can you make something like that actually work? It is an interesting problem, to move beyond the seemingly overt reference—can the end result transcend its inauspicious beginnings? Accordingly, I put two darker pairings in the lower level along with two emo sculptures, and two brightly multi-colored paintings above with a more seemingly superficial sculpture."

–Richard Aldrich