Rick Fox: Feral Footing
On View: June 9 - July 14, 2023
Walk-through with the Artists: Saturday, June 10, 2pm
”These paintings were made over the last 11 months in direct relation to the landscape of Wellfleet, MA, Ascoli Piceno Italy, Portsmouth, NH and York, ME. All work was created with the support of The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant.
Eleven months ago, I stepped away from a full-time teaching career. Almost immediately my relationship to painting shifted. There was no longer a need to articulate, rationalize, categorize, or reduce the practice of painting to manageable components. I was confronted with a refreshing kind of amorality. I was free from expectations or aspirations to dress painting up as a socially and culturally redeeming activity. The act of painting was allowed to be…. gloriously complex, mysterious, and uncertain. This new freedom created space for a new octave to show up. Tendrils of previously unavailable frequencies seemed to extend an invitation for new calibration through color shape and paint application. With a deliberate intention to participate and to feel my way through this calibration, these paintings are documents of recent experiences with the landscape…experiences that can sometimes feel like drinking from a firehose, with painting offering itself as the adjustable valve.” - Rick Fox
Rick FOx
Rick Fox is a contemporary artist working in New England.
A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art (MFA) and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (BFA), he studied with George Nick, a longtime realist painter and mentor to many painters in New England.
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