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| “Don't ever accuse Joshua Meyer of holding back.... Raw, emotional, tactile, Meyer's roughly realized paintings have a primitive energy that makes these works as much about the physical process of painting as about the figural identity of the imagery...the visual rhythms achieving a dialogue in which chaos and control come together in a balanced vignette of material and narrative.” —Judy Birke, New Haven Register “Energetic swipes of paint layered with a palette knife create human forms that seem to emerge and then disappear from behind a chaotic, water-like veil. Warm, fall hues and muddy browns are juxtaposed as if to balance between newly found light and the darkness that preceded it.” —Denise Taylor, The Boston Globe “Meyer’s surfaces are loaded with paint. They reveal the artistic process while involving the viewer in each artistic decision along the way—whether they know it or not.”—Linda Friedlaender, Yale Center for British Art “Joshua Meyer engages us with the fleeting details of the quiet spaces in our lives. It is in these small moments that we find ourselves connected to the whole of life.”—Rich McKown, Art New England “Surprising and delightful...his are ultimately sensual works, concerned more with conveying the experience of the material world...The paintings read like gentle, inward-looking celebrations of matters tactile and...kinetic." —Christopher Millis, The Boston Phoenix “Joshua Meyer’s paintings — the products of his work — do not allow us to take our leave from them. As Rilke describes in his letters on Cezanne — art can seize and change us. The colors and textures, the marks, the strokes, and the aura of his commanding visions reflect something of the nuance and variation, alluring and questioning quality of existence. But even more significant is Joshua’s devotionally trenchant, insistent and uncompromising giving himself over—with courageously searching honesty — to the process by which his works emerge, trail off, wander, get lost, experiment and reemerge. This young master-artist also is a genuine intellectual — one who knows how to give the intellect a rest, but also loves what it wants to offer. Consequently, he engages fateful questions concerning the character of art and of Judaism, their possibilities, challenges and problems. Today half of everyone and their cousins are writers and the other half are artists, but — as in every field of endeavor — there are only thirty-six, forty-nine at most, who are engaged in work of genuine value. Joshua Meyer is one of these few.” —Dr. Steve Copeland, Hebrew College Catalogs and books 2009 Talents, catalog, Paul Scott Gallery, February 2009. Articles and reviews ArtBusiness.com, San Francisco Art Galleries Openings, March 2009. Boston Globe, Artist finds his inspiration in the time before creation, Denise Taylor, August 26, 2004. Boston Phoenix, August 20, 2004. Artsmedia, Summer 2004. The Jewish Advocate, Giving a form to our world, Penny Schwartz, July 9, 2004 Gleanings, Tohu vaVohu, July-August, 2004. Boston Metro, Big fat Meyer, June 30, 2004. The "Commanding Vision" of Joshua Meyer, syndicated in: Newton Tab, New art exhibit on display at Hebrew College, June 23, 2004. MeltonArts.org, Tohu vaVohu and The Jewish Artist, December 2003. The Joseph Slifka Center Calendar, 2003–2004. The Yale Bulletin, March 7, 2003. GenerationJ, Mosaica: Grey, It's the New Black www.genj.com/lifestyles, by Jodi Werner, August 2002. GenerationJ, Interview, www.generationj.com, Jodi Werner, March 2002. The Boston Phoenix, Christopher Millis. January 28, 2000. The Boston Globe, Christine Temin. January 26, 2000. The Sharon Advocate, October 15, 1999. Art New England, Rich McKown. April 1999. The Cambridge Tab, January 4, 1999.
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