“Apart from the fact that these works are so beautifully composed and constructed as to make one feel at one with Silverman’s vision, the understanding that he has deliberately chosen ordinary settings to create such extraordinary circumstances excites the mind as much as the eye… He’s captured artisans, laborers, vacationers, and sportsmen—the old and the young. They comprise a repertoire of real people whose existence often transcends the commonplace, representing for the artist larger issues and deeper emotions. The work can be viewed on two planes: as documents of an epoch and recordings of ideas… Silverman’s art is created with intelligence and his commitment to truth and beauty is vividly clear.”—Steven Heller, , Arts Magazine, Jan. 1984