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What The Critics Say... |
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| "Intellectualizing painterly issues is not Fay's forte or intention; rather, color, composition, and social commentary do the communicating." |
Bruce Davis
Art Issues |
Nov - Dec 1991 |
| "The show is spirited and fun to look at. As art, it works in a cartoonish way." |
Suzanne Muchnic
Los Angeles Times |
January 1988 |
| "The work deals with satire and contradiction, colorfull paint and simplified images." |
Joe Fay
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
"The Young Talent Awards" show Catalog |
August - September 1987 |
| "Fay tries to capture the essense of his subject. The face is always shown in 3/4 view and adds colorful computer like patterns." |
Bonnie Fuller & Laura Maslon
Los Angeles Magazine |
November 1986 |
| "Joe Fay's acrylic on polyurethane reliefs and screens seem to have been composed as a direct challenge to every formalist critic who ever extolled the virtues of minimalism and conceptualism. Fay's works are deliberately eccentric and anti-intellectual." |
Colin Gardner
Los Angeles Times |
July 1986 |
| "The irreducible unit linking Fay's late 70's abstractions, the 82 works, and these wall mounted dioramas is persistently interesting." |
Marlena Donohue
Los Angeles Times |
January 1985 |
| "My paintings have a primitive quality that makes them accessible to a variety of social strata. Im against formalism that excludes the general public ... Im influenced by current events, walking down the street, reading comic books, driving my car..." |
Joe Fay
Images & Issues |
November 1983 |
| "Fay strikes an effective balance between decorative form and meaningful icon." |
Robert L. Pincus
Los Angeles Times |
September 1983 |
| "Iconic esthetic, Fay has provided evidence he may be one of the strongest representatives of this senisbility ... Even before his most recent show, then, Fay had achieved a distinctiveness of vision and style that was quite remarkable for a young painter." |
Robert L. Pincus
Art in America |
Summer 1982 |
| "Fay's art may dimly remind some viewers of an earlier Jean Du Buffet but it has a distinct character we may eventually be able to define as post modern." |
William Wilson
Los Angeles Times |
February 1981 |
| "Los Angeles' Joe Fay convolutes abstraction into such elegant complexity as to make Venetian end papers seem puritanical." |
William Wilson
Los Angeles Times |
March 1979 |
