Sterling Ruby

EXHM (3839)

2012

Text reads: "He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there when Jem waked up in the morning." - Harper Lee "To Kill A Mockingbird"

Mark Fox was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1963. He received his Bachelor of Fine Art from Washington University in St. Louis and his Master of Fine Art from Stanford University. Fox has received numerous accolades and residencies, notably from the Versailles Foundation, Munn Artist Fellowship, Giverny, France; Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic; Working Space, Awarded by Kultureferat, Munich, Germany; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito; and Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit. His work is featured in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; and the Anderson Collection, Stanford University. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Intersections: Giverny: Journal of an Unseen Garden, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach...

Colorful abstract contemporary collage sculpture that incorporates pages from 1960 Sears catalogues, cardboard, wood, concrete, acrylic paint, and wood glue. The bright red sculpture...

In creating this piece, I sought to explore the balance between emotional intensity and meditative calm. By using geometric and symbolic forms in bold gouache and colored pencil, eac...