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Jason Fox
Edited by Dan Nadel. Interview by Joe Bradley.
Hybrid portraiture of humanoid monsters and existential figures
This book presents new paintings by acclaimed New York–based artist Jason Fox (born 1964), along with sketches, source material and works on paper made between 2006 and 2016. Fox paints hybrid portraits—humanoid monsters and existential figures—often posed behind a canvas, as though in the act of their own creation.
In an interview with the artist Joe Bradley included in this volume, Fox describes his influences and subject matter, which range from comic books, rock icons and minimalism, to his dog, Duncan, and former president Barack Obama. Published on the occasion of Square Cave, the artist’s solo exhibition at Canada gallery in New York, this book provides insight into Fox’s multivalent and psychedelic studio practice.
"Untitled" (2016) is reproduced from 'Jason Fox.'
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In Canada's new Jason Fox monograph (published to accompany the exhibition on view at the gallery through April 23), the artist is interviewed by painter Joe Bradley, who remembers Fox's early shows at Feature gallery as "very comic book-ish, populated with cyborgs and freaks." Fox's response: "From the start I was interested in a kind of cyborg/extreme figuration. For me—I don't know how you feel—Guston was the big shadow to get out from under. He did what I wanted to do… He's this giant shadow, and to get out from under it my strategy was to go extreme. I was listening to Howard Stern, watching early Cronenberg movies, looking at S. Clay Wilson and Crumb. I wanted to blow the figure up and rebuild it in a Frankensteinish way. Art history and comics were the body parts." Featured image is "The Painting that Stole the World" (2015). continue to blog
Published by CANADA. Edited by Dan Nadel. Interview by Joe Bradley.
Hybrid portraiture of humanoid monsters and existential figures
This book presents new paintings by acclaimed New York–based artist Jason Fox (born 1964), along with sketches, source material and works on paper made between 2006 and 2016. Fox paints hybrid portraits—humanoid monsters and existential figures—often posed behind a canvas, as though in the act of their own creation.
In an interview with the artist Joe Bradley included in this volume, Fox describes his influences and subject matter, which range from comic books, rock icons and minimalism, to his dog, Duncan, and former president Barack Obama. Published on the occasion of Square Cave, the artist’s solo exhibition at Canada gallery in New York, this book provides insight into Fox’s multivalent and psychedelic studio practice.
