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Reuben Cox
Untitled
2007/10

About the Item

(Black) framed color photograph of a controlled explosion, billowing white and orange smoke clouds, white tendrils on a deep black background. In this series of work, explosions of smoke are generated by detonating black powder (traditional gunpowder) and photographed with manual shutter release and high-powered flashes. The resultant ambiguous smoke forms exist for a few seconds at most before dissipating into a shapeless mist. Given the volatile and evanescent nature of the subject matter, shutter control is key -- and largely reflexive. The element of chance in the process is further accentuated by experimental gunpowder arrangements and variable environmental conditions. Cox's reliance on his instincts to capture the images invokes an echo of surreal automatism, a flash of subconscious expression -- the product of which, in turn, is solicitous of free association like that of a Rorschach blot, which creates a subjective bridge of subliminal resonance between artist and viewer. Cox lives in Los Angeles, CA. He was born in Highlands, North Carolina in 1972 and graduated from The Cooper Union in New York, NY. His work has been featured in Blind Spot, Aperture, Doubletake, The New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, House and Garden, and other publications. Cox's photographs are included in collections of The Ogden Museum, The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Center for Documentary Studies, The Alice Austen House Museum, and Howard Stein's Cameraworks. Cox has had numerous solo shows: Bagatelles, Blackston (2012); Portraits of Musicians, Midway (2008); The Work of Joe Webb (2007), The Scholar's Stones of Lethe Gardens (2006) and What a Woman Wants (2005), all at Bespoke Gallery, New York, NY; X-Ray Dreams at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring, NY and The 2003 Contract Bridge World Championships! at The Captain's Bookshelf in Asheville, NC in 2005. Cox's work has been included in numerous group shows and publications and he was a finalist for the Discovery Prize at the 2005 Rencontres Arles festival in Arles, France. His monograph The Work of Joe Webb: Appalachian Master of Rustic Architecture, a book comprising Cox's photographs of the cabins constructed by architect Joe Webb and an essay authored by Cox, was published in 2009 by The Jargon Society and distributed by The University of Georgia Press. Cox is the owner of Old Style Guitar Shop in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

Creator:
Reuben Cox
Creation Year:
2007/10
Dimensions:
Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 1.75 in (4.45 cm)
Movement & Style:
Abstract
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU41731037653

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