Joe Fyfe at JG Contemporary.(NEW YORK)

Art in America | September 1, 2007| | Copyright

Eschewing "easel painting decisions" for a collagelike process that allows for great procedural flexibility, Joe Fyfe elicits emotional fine points from deceptively broad gestures. Generally, his paintings fall into two size ranges. They are either a few inches to a foot or two on a side, or 5 to 7 feet high or wide. He works in acrylic on burlap, with a lot of muslin, felt and terry cloth, and even a little linen here and there. In the small works, like Aram (2006)--orange felt drizzled with dark green paint and adorned, along its top edge, with a red-and-white-striped ...

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