Stephen Fay Artist Review

Stephen Fay's serial brush stroke performances, conducted in simply
fabricated color collages, are frequently staged. It is an accomplishment
that the resultant images have imbued notions of the Surrealist uncanny;
that sensation mixed with total strangeness with vigor and renewed
creepiness.

Stephen Fay engages the language of the porous and paroxysmal body in
cheerful colors and seemingly innocent materials. Movement is also
successfully conveyed by color. I am pulled toward its center with a
dizzying centripetal force driven by the carefully controlled concentric
circles of reds, purples, and blues.

Even decay can be conveyed with the effective use of free-motion as shown by
Stephen Fay's Ancient Forms: Lost and Found. Here, the artist has used color
to delineate abstract or glyphic-like shapes dyed in the color he has
created in an organic effect that can only be described as aging in the
way of ancient architecture or rock formations.

Stephen Fay's playful interpretations of traditional patterns is
interesting. As a beadwork artist who works on a palm-size scale, I envy
these artists and their medium¹s ability to proclaim color, shape and
concept and be gloriously visible from a long and wide distance. These
pieces command visual space and well-deserved attention.