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Article: Joe Fyfe at JG/Contemporary.(NEW YORK)(Jay Grimm Gallery)
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- Art in America
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- October 1, 2005
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While officially this was a show of only five paintings, all in the front room and made last year while New York-based abstract painter Joe Fyfe was staying in Ho Chi Minh City, there were actually 11--four rather large and seven rather small--the remainder squeezed into the office of this boutique-size gallery. This is substantially up in number from the three that he showed in his first solo venture in the space in 2002 (then Jay Grimm Gallery).
Fyfe's brushwork and nonobjective images, though still restrained, also demonstrate a greater magnanimity of gesture compared to the restricted, simpler markings in earlier paintings. Additionally, he has collaged a ...