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Recent articles and press written about Joe Waks
NEW JERSEY LIFE MAGAZINE
“I Didn’t Know Whether to Laugh or Cry”
Arts Guild of Rahway ìFrom the Garden of Earthly Delightsî Exhibit - January 2009
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at Birth Control, one of five works by Joe Waks. Suffice it to say that the name suits the unopened but, ahem, altered packages of Marshmallow Peep Bunnies in all their pastel glory.
Written by Pat Tanner on January 19th, 2009
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NEW YORK TIMES
“Idea is Genuinely Intriguing”
City Without Walls, Newark, NJ exhibit December 2007
There are a handful of standouts among the many paintings. Joe Waks hunts down amateur landscape paintings in thrift stores, junk shops and yard sales, then paints McDonald’s restaurant signs into them. Finally, he stamps them with his name, claiming them as his own. The paintings are hideous, but the idea is genuinely intriguing.
Written by Benjamin Genocchio on December 9, 2007
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STAR LEDGER
“Joe Waks Stands Out”
City Without Walls, Newark, NJ exhibit December 2007
Among contemporary art strategies, Bayonne’s Joe Waks stands out. Waks takes small accent pictures -- the kind folks hang in powder rooms, little pictures with frames you can buy at Kmart that show alpine meadows or sunny Southern landscapes, most of them mass-produced in China -- and paints little mementos of modern America into them, like a McDonald's Golden Arches rising out of the forest background.
Written by Dan Bischoff on Friday, November 30, 2007
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