"If P.T. Barnum had hired Breughel or Bosch to paint sideshow banners they might have resembled the art of Joe Coleman." -- The New York Times
"Coleman's long suit is his mastery of a meticulous illustrational style derived from "Ripley's Believe It Or Not", medical text books, Victorian curio collections and early Renaissance painting." -- Art in America
"...ghoulish, sometimes ghastly, always mesmerizing paintings" -- Time Out N.Y.
" His pictures are as delicately made as lace and have the vivid presence of Icons." -- The Financial Times