Taken as a whole, Kwartler’s work defies a singular style. Moving effortlessly between figuration, abstraction, and representation the work draws from imagery and experience; from offhand observation and moments taken directly from the artist's life, to the art historical and the textual. Kwartler has developed an approach resembling an interior monologue or conversation; his paintings make leaps, digressions, and diversions between themselves which taken together read as a web of continuous connection and becoming. Using a variety of techniques, from slow pictorial rendering in oil to the fast polished surfaces of his plaster ‘frescos’ each painting follows its own material and visual logic within the larger whole. Individually, the discreet works form a kind of catalog of thought and observation. Collectively, the works are combined and set against one another forming a lexicon that functions like a visual grammar for thoughts in time.