ART SCENE April 2006

...The architectural landscapes of painter Rick Monzon appear, at first glance, to be surreal dreamscapes that remind us of where we might have been. They are realistically rendered but with a subtle tweak to it, a ripple, a whirl, a mild shudder within the ostensible frame of reference. The possibility exists that they include a casual commentary on the impossible perfection sought by suburbia, as rendering them without his trademark whirl would make the paintings mundane...

-Mat Gleason

ARTWEEK September 2000

...Most impressive of all remains the manner in which Monzon manages to keep his surfaces looking not like photographs which have been intentionally smudged while being developed, nor like any other kind of standard representation altered by manipulation or application, but like what they in fact are: unreconstructed compositions painted from the bottom up in one piece. Whatever it comes from, this whoosh, swoosh, virtue-in-the-vertiginous approach to art is second nature to Monzon...

-Rick Gilbert