Elizabeth Fox
Goddess In A Bubble Jacket
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland
August 4 - 26, 2023
Crossing, 2023
Oil on panel, 20" x 26"
© Elisabeth Fox, courtesy of Dowling Walsh Gallery
Egg Hunt, 2022
Oil on panel, 16" x 18"
© Elisabeth Fox, courtesy of Dowling Walsh Gallery
The exhibition Elizabeth Fox: Goddess In A Bubble Jacket presents new work by painter Elizabeth Fox, who lives in Standish, Maine. ELIZABETH FOX is widely known for her carefully crafted paintings, whose tender colors and precisely drawn subjects belie their sly, dark humor. She works in an exacting, traditional method that connects her work to the early Renaissance masters. The pristine surfaces of her paintings are achieved by applying multiple thin layers of oil paint over a detailed black-and-white underpainting. Each layer is allowed to dry before adding the next, slowly building the image with each successive layer. Embracing “the beautiful and the mundane,” Elizabeth Fox’s meticulously constructed images reference Pop culture, art history, and the mysteries of everyday life. Populated by figures engaged in action and full of personality, her narratives are open-ended, allowing their interpretation to change over time. Each scene is caught in a frozen moment, a “cut” from a fantastical film of life. "By emphasizing the relationships between people, objects, color, and space, everyday scenes can become mysterious, funny, or strange,” she says.
ELIZABETH FOX was born in Orlando, Florida, and attended the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota. She lived in New Orleans for eighteen years before moving to Maine in 2008. Elizabeth Fox has exhibited her work widely at galleries across the United States and the Netherlands. She has had twelve solo exhibitions, including Played to Win at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in 2014.
DOWLING WALSH GALLERY
365 Main Street, Rockland, Maine 04841
