"[11] An interview with Standish in the April 23, 2018, issue of Voyage LA provided some insight in the artist's motivation for his work.
Every square inch of our physical universe and all existing life forms contain the elements of shape, texture, pattern, color – and all of it comes from a process of creation.
Another Interview with Standish in the June 23, 2023, LA Weekly column Meet an Artist by Shana Nys Dambrot provided a one-word response to her question, "What is your short answer to people who ask what your work is about?"
In a review of simultaneous solo commercial exhibitions at two Martin Lawrence Galleries locations in New York City and San Francisco, artist and critic Stephen Wozniak described Standish's work in relation to early Abstract Expressionism painting in the May 2023 issue of Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, "Many works in the show, such as the circular, acrylic-on-panel Crimson Kismet, offer rich, rolling, textural reveals that show viewers the numerous color-saturated paint layers Standish has laid down before unearthing each into repeated palette-knived patterns that seem to flower and fold above and beneath the ground.
'"[13] Several of Standish’s paintings have been featured on the cover or inside of numerous notable international magazines, including the November 2008 issue of Flaunt (No.