"In his paintings, Aaron Gilbert depicts relationships, between the figures represented in the works, as well as between him and his subjects. His treatment of the human figure is platonic and minimal. With stark features and muted tones, there is nothing representational and everything evocative about these figures. Their expressions are intense, their actions focused. Their situations can be violent as in Patricide or loving and intimate as in The New One. But in many ways this intensity is implied through subtle gestures and not aggressively thrust upon the viewer. Aaron has a way of trusting the medium and his depictions, including only what is essential in communicating the universality or impossibility of a particular relationship between lovers, mother and child, father, and son."

- Melissa Levin