Mark Fox: If therefore

June 19, 2009 - August 07, 2009

Artist(s)

Mark Fox

Born 1963 in Cincinnati, Ohio

Lives and works in New York City

EDUCATION

1988 Stanford University, MFA

1985 Washington University, St. Louis, BFA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 Not In This Fool's House, Staniar Gallery at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

2014 MRKPMQ, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

The Fields, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH

2013 Unaccustomed, Galeria Pilar, Sao Paulo, Brasil

If That Then This, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

This Too, [ARTSPACE] at UNTITLED, Oklahoma City, OK

2012 Deep Seated, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN

2011 Outbread, Roanoke College, Salem, VA

Cut...ting Edge, Rochester Armory, Rochester, NY

Statue, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA

2010 MONSTR, Larissa Golston Gallery, New York, NY

2009 If therefore, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH

Whitney Museum of American Art, Art Party Featured Artist, New York, NY

2008 Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

Dust, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX

Paper Bulls, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2007 The Peacock Flesh, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

Dust, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2006 Cricket's Song, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2005 Fascia, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

Inchmeal, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

Prints and Drawings, Clay St. Press, Cincinnati, OH

New Works on Paper, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH

2004 Dust, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL

2003 Dust, Drawing installations and video projections, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

2001 Downburst, Multi-media installation, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2000 Six Degrees Of..., Mixed media sculpture, Artworks Sculpture Project, Federal Plaza, Cincinnati, OH

1998 Fallen Stages: Drawings, pages and chapters from Account Me Puppet, The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

Recent Paintings, Hiestand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Articles of Faith, Drawings and Performance Ephemera, Southern Ohio Museum of Art, Portsmouth, OH

1996 Images from Wurlitzer Voice, Teplitzky and Scott Fine Arts, Cincinnati, OH

1995 Verses and Tongues, Puppets and Performance Ephemera, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

1991 New Paintings, C.A.G.E. Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

1989 Recent Works, Patricia Herrmann Gallery, Covington, KY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 Hoarding, Amassing and Excess, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL

Somewhere Between Creation & Destruction, Joseloff Gallery at University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY

2013 5 Rooms, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

Summer Mixer, Josh Liner Gallery, New York, NY

Art for Art's Sake, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of ARt, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

Introduction, S & J Project(s), New York, NY

2012 Decade, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Textual Attraction, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY

Contemporary Watercolor, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY

Rainbow of Chaos, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

2011 Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

The Ghost and the Whale, Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, CA

January White Sale, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY

MAGNA CARTA: Art/Paper, Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Group Show, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

Black & Blue, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2010 Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foudation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA

PaperCut, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2009 On Paper, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH

Topographies, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Slash: Paper Under the Knife, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

Unmistakable, HERE Art Center, New York, NY

Paper Trail, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA

Talk Dirty to Me, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

Just What Are They Saying... (curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody), Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2008 Long Time No See, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

I Won't Grow Up, Cheim and Read, New York, NY

Stable Scrawl, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

2007 Contemporary Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art,, Philadelphia, PA

2006 Analog Animation: Selections Spring 2006, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

2005 Portraits on Paper, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

Underage, Clifford Chance E US LLP/Dinaburg Arts LLC, New York, NY

4, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA

WOVEN, Gallery W52, New York, NY

Drawn Out, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

2004 Itsy Bitsy Spider, Feature Inc., New York, NY

2003 Welcome, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2002 Walk to Zet & Spiders from Zet, Drawing Installations and Video Projections, Jeleni Gallery, Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art, Prague

Summer Vacation, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2001 Surface Active, The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH

Journal of Being, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA

Accumulations, Kent State University, Akron, OH

Working Space, Drawing and Film Installation, NeuRathaus Gallery, Munich, Germany

Unit 2, What?, UNIT 2, Cincinnati, OH

1998 Stacked, The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH

Small Works, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

1996 sortasorid, Dileia Contemporary, Cincinnati, OH

Evicted, High Street Gallery, Oxford, OH

PERFORMANCE/SAW THEATER

Mark Fox was the Creative Director of Saw Theater. Co-founded in 1993 with Anthony Luensman, Saw Theater was a non-profit contemporary puppet theater that conceived and produced original multi-media performances often in collaboration with artists and writers.

2001 and the movement of hearts came at me like a storm.., Intermedia Festival,The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH

1999 Account Me Puppet

Theater for the New City, New York, NY

Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA

The Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, GA

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

The Kiss, Webcast in collaboration in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and Pseudo Programs, New York, NY

The Temper Ris'n

The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Intermedia Festival, The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH

Faust, Creation and performance of two large-scale puppets for Charles Gounod's Faust, directed by Nicholas Muni, The Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati, OH

1998 and the movement of hearts came at me like a storm.., The Festival of International Puppet Theater, P.S. 122, New York, NY

A Criminal's Story, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

1997 Stain

Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

The Ascension, The Contemporary Dance Theater, Cincinnati, OH

1996 Wulitzer Voice, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

1995 Verses and Tongues, (Created and performed in conjunction with solo exhibit), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

1994 Ruins, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

A Great Storm, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

1993 puppetstory, in situ, Cincinnati, OH

Zorro, Shadow puppetry sequences commissioned in conjunction with The Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati Production.

FILM/VIDEO

1999 Toy, Super 8 Film; 20 minutes, Super Super 8 Film Festival, Toured the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan

Oyster Project, Super 8 Film created in conjunction with a live performance by the rock band Oyster, The Contemporary Dance Theater, Cincinnati, OH

1998 Built, Film Loop Mechanism, Crash, Rike Center, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

Carousel Traces, Film Loop Mechanism (in collaboration with Andrea Sparks, 840 Gallery, College of Design, Architecture and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1996 Filmworks, Screening of selected short animated films, Kaldis, Cincinnati, OH

FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2012 Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program at Giverny

2002 Artist Residency, Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic

The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant

2001 Artist Residency, Working Space, Awarded by Kultureferat, Munich, Germany

Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship

2000 The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant

Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award

1999 Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Otto M. Budig Foundation Grant

The Fine Arts Fund of Cincinnati Fund

Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant

Cinergy Foundation Grant

Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship

Ohio Arts Council Operation Support Grant

1998 Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award

The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant

Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant

Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship

1997 Puffin Foundation Grant

Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant

Artist Residency, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

1995 Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award

1994 Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant

1993 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship

RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY

2013 Glentzer, Molly. "Mark Fox Exhibits at Hiram Butler Gallery," Houston Chronicle (April, 26, 2013)

Kahn, Eve. "Art Imitates Indianapolis," The New York Times (January 16, 2013)

Considine, Austin. "Amidst Cuts, Indianapolis Museum Partners with Alexander Hotel," Art in America (March,

2013)

2011 Nataraj, Nirmala. "Mark Fox splatters, stains in art are intentional," San Francisco Chronicle (May 26, 2011)

2010 McClemont, Doug. "Mark Fox," ARTnews (September 2010)

"Mark Fox," The New Yorker (June 29, 2010)

Mann, C. Griffith. "Acquisitions 2009," Cleveland Art (March/April 2010)

2009 Klanten, Robert. Papercraft. Berlin, Die Gestalten Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2009

Tranberg, Dan. "Artist Mark Fox draws on accidental to create abstract drawings," The Plain Dealer (July 12, 2009)

"Overheard," Vogue (June 2009)

"Whitney Watchers," Art in America online (June 12, 2009)

2008 "artisti a New York", Corriere della Sera Io Donna (January 2008)

Kahn, Eve. "Extreme Art," ART + AUCTION (September 2008)

Schultze, Troy. "Rice Gallery Hosts Outrageous Window Installation Dust," HOUSTON PRESS (August 7, 2008)

Crawford, Lynn. "Mark Fox, Paper Bulls," The Brooklyn Rail (July 2008)

Johnson, Ken. "Some Shows for Escape, Some for Introspection," The New York Times (July 4, 2008)

2007 "Mark Fox," The New Yorker (November 12, 2007)

Press Release(s)

Mark Fox

If therefore

June 19^th – August 7^th, 2009

SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art is pleased to announce

an exhibition of recent drawings by Mark Fox

Entitled If therefore, Mark Fox’s second solo exhibition at SHAHEEN incorporates both his “cut” drawings – elaborate, sprawling, net-like works on paper that consist of hundreds of individual cutout drawings – and his “flat”, conventionally formatted drawings, which he executes on single, rectangular sheets of paper. While Fox’s 2005 exhibition at SHAHEEN was dominated by the cut drawings, his current exhibition at the gallery focuses heavily on the flat works. In the interim, the ongoing, synergistic dialogue between Fox’s cut and flat drawings has continued to develop and evolve, but the correlation between the two has shifted from a more purely visual and optical relationship to a more direct physical one. Whereas the flat drawings in Fox’s 2005 exhibition echoed the web-like structures and shadow-play created by the cut drawings, the flat drawings that populate If therefore have evolved from the direct material traces of the working process through which he creates his cut works. More specifically, Fox’s most recent flat drawings begin as “drop cloths” atop which he creates the individual cutout drawings that coalesce into the cut works. As Fox executes the individual elements for the cut drawings, the underlying white sheets receive the material remnants and overflow of Fox’s efforts -agglomerations of brush wipes, stray draftsmanship, doodles, notes/thoughts and an occasional phone-number. Using these sheets as platforms for the flat drawings, Fox works back into them, riffing off of and expounding upon the pre-existing accumulation of marks and gestures to conjure up a chaotic labyrinth of geometric forms, recognizable objects, text and anthropomorphic shapes that reference an expansive visual lexicon (ranging from ancient mythology, to the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, to religious iconography, to the artist’s own personal symbolism). In juxtaposition and combination, Fox’s profusion of visual elements suggest an endless variety of chance, non-linear narratives that burst into the consciousness of the viewer all at once. Through this explosion of visual activity, Fox continues his ongoing exploration into his own subconscious; the narrative threads or connections between random, or seemingly random thoughts and ideas that each of us begins and abandons thousands of times daily; and the excess of information and networks that pervade our everyday lives.

Fox’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY); the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the Cincinnati Art Museum; and the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA. This summer, Fox is the featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2009 “Art Party”. His work resides in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and several other museum/institutional collections. Fox received his MFA from Stanford University and holds a BFA from Washington University, St. Louis. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Fox currently lives and works in New York City.

During the exhibition, SHAHEEN is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Thursday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. and by appointment.

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Mark Fox
718, 2009
Ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil, and crayon
11 x 13 3/8 inches

Mark Fox
9:27 Express, 2009
Ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil, and crayon
23 1/8 x 29 1/4 inches

Mark Fox
Ack, 2008
Ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil, and crayon
22 1/8 x 30 1/4 inches

Mark Fox
Ease, 2009
Ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil, and crayon
22 7/8 x 28 3/4 inches

Mark Fox
Hyperthy, 2009
Ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil, and crayon
22 1/8 x 29 1/4 inches

Mark Fox
Silver Arch, 2008
Ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil, and crayon
23 x 28 7/8 inches

Mark Fox
Structure the Bitch, 2009
Ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil, and crayon
22 7/8 x 28 7/8 inches

Mark Fox
Pink Ball, 2009
Ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil, and crayon
22 7/8 x 17 1/4 inches

Mark Fox
Untitled (Sorry), 2007
Ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil, ballpoint pen, crayon on paper with linen tape and metal pins
77 x 64 x 12 inches

Mark Fox
Pink Door, 2009
ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil and crayon
22 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches

Mark Fox
You and the World, 2009
ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil and crayon
22 5/8 x 28 3/4 inches

Mark Fox
Breath, 2009
ink, watercolor, acrylic, marker, gouache, graphite pencil, colored pencil, ballpoint pen, crayon on paper with linen tape and metal pins
21 x 36 inches

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