“It’s good to see eclectic artwork that imaginatively combines current events, mythology, and the history of art to represent our current fears, anxieties, and hopes. Art can combine the past and the present, the real and the ideal, and can both satirize the problematic present and present imaginative humanist alternatives for the future. Louise Bourgeois said, ‘Art is a guarantee of sanity’ and, ‘It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.’"

– DeWitt Cheng, Juror