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Article: Joe Fyfe at Nicholas Davies.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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This painter began as a realist, depicting unpeopled landscapes, somber in color as though seen through lightly tinted sunglasses. A couple of seasons ago he kicked over the traces and emerged as an abstract painter, and the 14 oils in this new show continue his development in that direction. Fyfe sticks to the square format throughout, the largest 48 inches on a side, the smallest 10. He does his best work in the large canvases, though he is equally successful in the medium-sized Cheney, a balanced composition in sensuous hues of teal, jade, fluorescent white and persimmon. In most of the works, he uses a lightly loaded brush of rather dry pigment, thinly applied so you ...
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