Tony Fey's The Stormy Banks

A commanding horizontal canvas, *The Stormy Banks* arrives fully framed at a scale — thirty-six inches tall and five feet wide — that commands a wall rather than merely occupies it. Rendered in acrylic on paper and canvas, Tony Fey's hand-worked surface carries the atmospheric restlessness its title implies, built up with the kind of tactile presence that only a handmade work can hold. The four-inch depth of the frame gives the piece an architectural weight, allowing it to read as object as much as image. A work of genuine editorial force, it belongs in the company of serious collecting.