Francine Fox
Pennsylvania (USA)
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Pennsylvania (USA)
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I am interested in mapping connections between the ideas, objects, organisms, and images in my world. By developing these organically composed diagrams, I hope to better understand identity in those around me and myself. Additionally, I want to reveal the beauty of overlaps, transitions, and links between things that are called separate: particularly confusion and clarity, facts and fictions, complexity and simplicity, and the self and others. I am fascinated with the continuums and Venn diagrams between identity philosophies that focus on the individual, and those that focus on society as a whole in which the individual plays a small part. I look to question the aforementioned separations through depictions of conjoined bodies, inner and parallel worlds, animals, and charts. My artwork houses the meeting of these concepts where subsequently the elusive notion of clarity of identity is explored.
My work stems from a tradition ranging from Christian Schad and early Lucien Freud to Walton Ford, Inka Essenhigh, and Ian Ingram. Through the mediums of oil, watercolor, gouache, graphite and ink, I look to produce imagery that is at once both striking and unsettling. Slick grays and vivid colors illuminate lush illusions of texture and intricate details. I continually utilize a mixture of personal and cultural symbolic vocabularies. These serve as reference not only to art history, but also to the ability of a symbolic image to have numerous meanings or identities. I intend for the compilation of these formal and conceptual relationships to parallel the exquisite complexity of the pursuit to know the self, its’ place, and relevance in the world.
My work stems from a tradition ranging from Christian Schad and early Lucien Freud to Walton Ford, Inka Essenhigh, and Ian Ingram. Through the mediums of oil, watercolor, gouache, graphite and ink, I look to produce imagery that is at once both striking and unsettling. Slick grays and vivid colors illuminate lush illusions of texture and intricate details. I continually utilize a mixture of personal and cultural symbolic vocabularies. These serve as reference not only to art history, but also to the ability of a symbolic image to have numerous meanings or identities. I intend for the compilation of these formal and conceptual relationships to parallel the exquisite complexity of the pursuit to know the self, its’ place, and relevance in the world.
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