Peter Fox

“... a Cogito for a dissolved self.”   
- Deleuze
 
My ‘Process’ series embraces uncertainty, building language from accident.  It began with a thought about language as a conceptual algebra, in which constellations of signifiers generate fields of meaning.  One might play with the constellational structures, in the space before words.  Pressing the point, I thought about existing languages attached to indefiniteness, equations with pre-undefined variables.   
 
The language I engaged is ‘Abstract Painting’.  Focused on Minimalism and Process, Op and Psychedelia, parameters are rigorous: exposed supports, primary colors and the law of gravity - hands-off, all-over, self-reflexive.  The words feel familiar but the language is open.  In my ‘Abstraction’ objects and images freely serve as organizing systems.   
 
I prepare paint on a flexible palette, from which the colors spill onto canvas, allowing chance and fluid dynamics a central role in shaping process and outcome.  With repetition and observation, I discover patterns in the accidents I instigate.    

Peter Fox has exhibited with Pierogi, Roebling Hall, The Hogar Collection, Eyewash, Esso Gallery, ISE Cultural Foundation, White Box Annex, and The University Art Museum at SUNY in New York, The Hunterdon Art Museum and Rupert Ravens Contemporary in New Jersey, Curator’s Office (Washington, DC), Arin Contemporary Art/Dust Gallery (Laguna Beach/Las Vegas), Scott Richards Contemporary Art (San Francisco), Galleria Milano (Milan), Galleria Martano (Turin) and Magazzino d’Arte Moderna (Rome), among others.  His work has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail, ArtNotes, WAGMAG, The Washington Post, Segno and TimeOut Roma, among other publications.  He received his MFA in painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia/Rome and lives and works in New York.
 
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