Joe Fyfe
Joe Fyfe (b. 1952 in New York, New York) is based in New York City. He repurposes found materials like kites, signs, and banners to reveal the poetic beauty within overlooked everyday objects. Culled from daily refuse—particularly that of impoverished areas in Southeast Asia—Fyfe’s work documents regional transitions and globalization. They are deliberately nonrepresentational, allowing materials to dictate form and come together on their own, rather than adhere to a preconceived artist’s vision. Fyfe received his BFA in 1976 from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been publishing art criticism and essays extensively for the past twenty years and is the recipient of numerous residencies and awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship (2006-07), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), and a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (2004, 2015).
Fyfe is currently included in group exhibitions at 42 Carlton Place in Glasgow and Ceysanne & Bénétière in Saint-Etienne.
Joe Fyfe / Selected works
Joe Fyfe Exhibitions
Won't You Be My Neighbor
October 28 - December 31
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Joe Fyfe
But a flag has flown away
January 4 - February 10, 2019
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JOE FYFE
Kiss the Sky
September 14 - October 23, 2016
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- Glasstire {Texas Visual Art}, No Strings Attached, January 2020
- Artland, Lob des Lernens, November 2019
- Artadia, Awardee Spotlight: A Dialogue with Joe Fyfe, March 2019
- Two coats of paint, Heather Bause Rubinstein, The materiality of written language, January 2019
- Artcritical, Joe Fyfe: But a flag has flown away at Nathalie Karg, January 2019
- L'Essor de la Loire, Daniel Brignon, Claude Viallat - Joe Fyfe, a meeting, and oeuvre, January 2019
- Time Out, The Top 5 Art Shows This Week, January 2019
- Gotham Magazine, Allison Berg, Catch a Rising Star, 2017
- Sculpture Magazine, Jan Garden Castro, Joe Fyfe, March 2017
- Time Out, Howard Halle, Joe Fyfe, October 2016
- ArtForum, Tyler Curtis, Joe Fyfe at Nathalie Karg, 2016
- Blouinartinfo, Datebook: Joe Fyfe’s ‘Kiss the Sky’ at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York, September 2016
- ARTnews, Lilly Wei, Joe Fyfe at Longhouse Projects, February 2015
- The Brooklyn Rail, David Rhodes, JOE FYFE make me one with everything, February 2015
- Art in America, Lilly Wei, Joe Fyfe, July 2011
- Artnet, Walter Robinson, Joe Fyfe: PAINTER'S APOTHEOSIS, 2011
- Bomb Magazine, Josh Blackwell, Joe Fyfe, 2011
- The New York Sun, David Cohen, Orgy in the Raw, June 2010
- Glasstire {Texas visual art}, No Strings Attached, January 2020
Publications
Joe FyfeBut a flag has flown away
The title of the exhibition is meant to evoke materiality, lightness and distance, qualities important to my practice. It is a phrase taken from “Exiled Grace,” one of the poems in the book Calligrammes (1913-1916) by Guillaume Apollinaire, written while he was a soldier serving in World War I. Each painting utilizes a poem from […]
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