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Review Magazine
1996
Ming Fay, "Veins of the Spiral", Kim Foster, May 22-June 22
This is a splendid show and bodes well to usher even more splendid future shows as Fay's organic images - cherries and lobsters and eerie seed forms - fade into my general implied resonances. At the moment the work is simply great: surely one of the great walls for this season is Kim Foster's back room - the size of most galleries - with a series of organic and threatening works, each a strange almost threatening tubular form thrusting out at the viewer: the critic truly skewered on the work. Some on closer examination are exaggerated and adjusted creatures, some seem sui genesis and together all make up an enormously exciting display to go with the whole spectrum of goodies in the other room.
These sculptures appear to be the fashionable forms of the moment, scattered on walls and floors, clearly post modern, attractive and effective, but on closer examination their organic base gives them an intensity and resonance beyond conventional art strategies. With so many odd forms, curious wall decorations, shrimp tails and bits of nature transformed, the room requires time to depart - the call of the wild requiring one more look at this creature or that. There has been an explosion in a Sci-Fi special effects factory scattering wonders across the room, fragments almost real but more than all else art, resonant, almost always beautiful, thick with implication. A Delight. All told it is wonderful and somehow the further from real the objects the more impact: the biomorphic and the realist is being transmuted by a special alchemy into sculpture, into art, very good art indeed. A great show and best of all one that seems certain to lead to even more impressive work: mature, personal, special and must see for yourself.
J. Bowyer Bell
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