“More than most contemporary art movements, Characterism presents the underbelly of current day popular culture for what it truly is: a thought altering, time and space machine to nowhere fast. The common link among the artists of this movement is a fixation with parallel worlds inhabited by curious creatures knee deep in self analysis. The simultaneously embrace and berate the cute, the quirky and the cliché. They stretch the concept of the self indulgent artist through a quirky sort of kitsch, colored by video games, visual worlds, cartoons and cold light. And in their studios, where their art is made, one can imagine a sanctuary from the real”.

D. Dominick Lombardi