Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape & Place Group Exhibition

Ming Fay's garden of larger-than-life vegetables, fruits and foliage tend to impose a haunting presence on viewers, who are dwarfed by their largess. Fay explores themes of growth and decay, life and death. He blends Asian symbolism and mysticism sometimes obscuring his deep concern for the human destiny with seductive playfulness.

Excerpt from Press release of exhibition.

Hanging overhead, leaning down just far enough to tickle a tall person's ear, is Money Tree by Chinese artist Ming Fay. The branches are counterfeit--albeit very good counterfeits. The leaves are a dead giveaway, with size and color out of proportion, but the effect is evocative nonetheless. He has gone a long way with the simple ingredients of wire, paper, pigment; they are so lightweight that they are suspended by invisible fishing cord, and the translucent leaves shimmer in the air. Of variable dimensions and an indeterminate number of parts, the branches, even in the sterile environment of a gallery, make a fairytale forest of the space.

Exerpt from web review 

The gallery that works the best as a gallery features works by Ming Fay and Ursula von Rydingsvard. Rydingsvard's "p's & q's" dominates the space. A rough-hewn wood construction, highlighted with graphite, the bold form rises from the floor, a misshapen column subtly expanding in diameter as it reaches its nearly 7-foot height. Fay's "Money Tree" is as airy and unsubstantial as Rydingsvard's work is solid and earthbound. A number of long "branches" made of wire coated in papier-mache dangle from the ceiling and fill the space not occupied by Rydingsvard's column. Each of the branches sprouts "leaves" made of sheets of paper covered with pigment. It's summer in the middle of winter. There are four other works by Fay outside. Colorful, wasp-nest-like forms hanging in trees, they are titled "Monkey Pots" after tropical fruits much loved by monkeys.

Excerpt from a review on Material Terrain
By David Bonetti
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Visual Arts Critic