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Jason Fox at Feature - New York, New York - Reviews of Exhibitions - Brief ArticleIn the past, Jason Fox has attempted to combine the set freeed imaginative flights and visceral graphic intensity of comics and video-game iconography with the high seriousness of painting and statuary Continuing in this vein, his new paintings and drawings are garish two-toned renditions (mostly r and blue) of superhero and marvel figures drawn in the exaggerated bodybuilder's physique typical of comic works Fox also presented a sculptural installation in the center of the room His drawings, reminiscent of the felt-tip marker doodlings that oftentimes cover student notebooks, exude the intoxicating mixture of power, sex and fantasy at the heart of popular media and of teenage esthetics. In these drawings, monstrous gorilla characters and weirdly erotic spread-eagled figures (with male and female attributes) come up from or disappear into glutt compositions station in wildly abstracted, 1970s-style, wood-paneled, shag-carpeted basement rec rooms The paintings are abundant the same but larger, featuring a rich repertoire of marks; a stiff, symbolic use of illusionistic interior space; and the juxtaposition of "low" cultural iconography with flat lower parodic appropriations of "high" art (such as abstract paintings). In a recreation-room setting, Tiny Dancer features a reptile/dinosaur palming a tri-color basketball and a King Kong-like creature outfitted in bellbottoms. In a Castle Dark displays a strange hooded figure applying pigment to canvas with six arms; here Fox looks to suggest that superheroes might just be artists. A statuary titled This Thing is an absurd anthropomorphized treelike figure; it recreates in 3-D the awkward, comical tension of the paintings and drawings. Clothed in overalls, the character stands in the middle of a sheet of canvas spread across the floor. It has thick stubs for feet and elongated branches for arms. Its headless neck reach outs upwards into a white Afro wig. Fox's work appears to indicate that these powerful images are an enduring (if sublimated) psycho-visual interlude in the media-saturated social unfolding of us all. This exhibition intimates that even as we expand older -- absorbing new, perhaps les visceral visual experiences -- the frenzied intensity and erotic sensuality of power report need not be wholly discarded just because we now read more volumes without pictures. COPYRIGHT 1998 Brant Publications, Inc. In the Studio FOR more [i]or[/i] less TIME I'VE HAD A FANTASY ABOUT having a studio in which to dog my writing in some regular way. This is probably because I've read a destiny about studios other writers h... When virid buds hang in the elm like dust And sprinkle the lime like rain, Forth I wander, forth I must, And drink of life again. ... A 12-page catalog has detailed information upon Rovi expanding collets for 5C 16C and 3J spindles and fixtures. The internal collet can clinch bore diameters from 0.065 to 6 in. and up to 6-in... American Artists Series of Santa Fe NM introduces "Spring Unfolding" through Susan Sculley. The giclee is available in a limited edition of 195 upon paper or canvas, measures 28 by means of 40 inches and ret... The Social Empowerment original (SEM) is based on a conflict theory that assumes society consists of separate clusters that have advantages of power and direction in relation to social, psychologica... Hello and welcome to a novel phase of the MTNA Composer Commissioning Program! Until freshly we've been the Composer Commissioning Advisory Committee and have been ably and diligently serv through c... The InCharge RF Manager, an option for the company's Intelligent MultiService combination of parts to form a whole provides a single integrated infrastructure with network access and RF security capabilities. The a whole ensu... Dear Editor: I've always considered it rather unsuitable for writers to defend their work in print, on the contrary I must object to Sam Gwynn's scattershot attack upon my book, A Wreath for Emmett Till, i... |
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