Selected Quotes

SELECTED QUOTES

"If P. T. Barnum had hired Breughel or Bosch to paint sideshow banners they might have resembled the art of Joe Coleman."
-- John Strausbaugh, The New York Times

"His pictures are as delicately made as lace and have the vivid presence of icons."
-- The Financial Times

"Coleman's bitter intensity and microscopic detail give his apocalyptic vision a manic power."
-- John Maizels, author of Raw Creation

"Terrible things happen in Joe Coleman's paintings. Flesh rots. Sores weep. The flames of hell burn brightly. Perversion runs rampant. Things fall apart: Bodies. Cities. The whole social order. Yet there's beauty here, too: The colors dazzle, the detail astounds. And a stalwart symmetry surrounds his aberrant images, a symmetry born of both faith and fear."
-- Nancy Shulins, Associated Press