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"Decidedy imperfect. Painter and photographer Chuck Stern has reconciled himself to this condition which most people spend their lives tryng to deny. It seems that this revelation is what makes both his photographs and canvases so liberating - we no longer have to color within the lines!" -Emily Shannon, Valley Optimist Magazine "Stern employs a realist style in his surreal paintings and a group of intense portraits. In both mediums he layers or puts together familiar objects in unfamiliar, irrational relationships. In that sense, he eliminates any readable narrative and suggests the complex stew of human experience." -Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican "The visionary quality of Stern's paintings - bleak, fleshy, and somehow affectionate - brings to mind the Englishman Stanley Spencer. These are wonderful paintings, the product of a fierce and original way of looking at things. In his color photographs, the blurring and melting of form and color are compacted and intensified. Perhaps on account of its seductive uncertainty, Stern's work is unusually enthralling." -Patricia Wright, Daily Hampshire Gazette "What serves to unify the divergent styles of Stern's photographs is a uniformly high technical quality, particularly in regard to printing technique, and the sheer and obvious devotion that the photographer feels for the scenery and society of his life and the medium he now employs to embrace it." -Robert Tobey, The Valley Advocate