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Joe Fyfe

Joe Fyfe (b. 1952) has shown his work internationally since the early 1980s. His work was included in the legendary "Times Square Show," New York (1980) organized by Colab; and his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Christian Lethert, Cologne; ACME, Los Angeles; White Columns, New York and James Graham & Sons, New York; Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg and Galerie Ryellga, Hanoi, Vietnam among others. His next solo exhibition will be at Longhouse Projects NYC in December 2014. Fyfe’s writings have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Artnet.com, Gay City News, Artcritical.com, Art On Paper, and BOMB, as well as numerous catalog essays. He has curated exhibitions for Zurcher Studio, New York; Cheim & Read, New York; and Apex Art, New York, among other venues.

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Hans Hartung, No Matter What They Say

by Joe Fyfe February 5, 2023February 6, 2023

Hartung’s work most likely didn’t go over well in the heyday of conceptualism, earth art, and the literal use of materials.

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Painting Outside the Safe Zone

by Joe Fyfe October 26, 2019October 26, 2019

It is not so much what message is narrated or illustrated, but how the form of the painting is questioned in its realization.

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Stanley Whitney’s Machine for Painting

by Joe Fyfe July 13, 2019July 13, 2019

Whitney’s paintings at this point seem to embody the transitory.

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In Search of More Brutalism

by Joe Fyfe January 4, 2019January 5, 2019

The disavowal of blighted Brutalist structures is a rejection of the unconditional love of imperfection.

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When Photorealism Meets Delacroix

by Joe Fyfe April 14, 2018April 13, 2018

Robert Bechtle’s photorealist pictures of suburban California resist exoticism as much as Delacroix’s paintings of Algerian harems.

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You Are in Good Hands with Matt Connors

by Joe Fyfe November 11, 2017November 11, 2017

Connors has arrived at a synthesis of what, up until now, has been a stylistically identifiable but rather diverse output.

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Ephemera, Wives, Paint: Cézanne & Picasso

by Joe Fyfe December 20, 2014December 24, 2014

Masters of painting are occupying major venues in New York this winter. Egon Schiele at the Neue Galerie, Matisse cutouts at MoMA. In addition, the rival Picasso exhibitions at Gagosian and Pace are noteworthy, as is Madame Cézanne at the emblazoned, tarnished Met.

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The Uses of Pleasure: Michelle Grabner at James Cohan

by Joe Fyfe November 1, 2014November 5, 2014

What most struck me about the now notorious Michelle Grabner review in the October 24th edition of The New York Times was that it was, unusually, surrounded by reviews of other painters.

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Matisse’s Garden of Problems: The Cut-Outs at MoMA

by Joe Fyfe October 25, 2014October 28, 2014

The much-heralded exhibition of Matisse cut-outs currently at the Museum of Modern Art was previously at the Tate Modern, with a few less items than here, but it broke all attendance records and was open all night in its final days.

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