"Multiple facets make up experience: fragments, memory, and daily events like rearranging one’s studio or balancing a budget. Building up layers or the ubiquitous in juxtaposition with affirmative paint/marker strokes which burst forth across the page speaking of potency, passion, and life, Doug Stone demonstrates the significance in the sum of all parts making up a life. Stone’s sculptural training and interest in architecture become visible in the tight construction of layered surfaces... the composition retains an astounding balance and aesthetic... A powerful gestural form painted over a precise architectural drawing superimposes chaos on order. Moving between detail and the whole, we negotiate meaning-making until we arrive at a point of convergence, experiencing both contingency and temporal completion." (Corinna Ghaznavi, Flash art vol. XXXI n. 202)

"There is a beautiful range of movement and line quality, from long and straight to choppy, to a line drawn, it seems, with a piece of rope. The aggressive laying down of lines is tempered by the openness of the white space and the frolicsomeness of the content. It is altogether playful and confusing, like magic." (Artpost)