“Americatastrophe”, 2018, Ink, acrylic, watercolor, marker, graphite, color pencil on paper, 36 x 46 inches
Reynolds Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Mark Fox. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at our Main Street location. The show runs through August 22.
For more than a decade, Mark Fox’s practice has centered around works on paper. For him, everything begins with drawing and often, through elaborate systems and processes, these drawings result in sculptural forms. Through these systems, Fox reduces decision-making at the formal level while allowing for “accidents” to inform the content.
The importance of random mark-making and chance juxtaposition, integral to all his work, reflects his concern with how we manage the daily onslaught of information and how it manages us. An obsessive doodler, Fox has always accumulated stains, spills, lists, and other marginalia adjacent to his formal drawings. Years ago, he began to question the higher value placed on intentional marks while random ones, just as beautiful or intriguing, were considered less important. This spurred him to elevate the random marks by cutting them out and building elaborate web-like sculptural forms. Wishing to increase the element of chance in these web pieces, he assembles them by working from the solid white (reverse) side so that the actual images remain hidden from view. Only after the webs are constructed does he see what new meanings or associations are revealed through the juxtaposition of individual images on the “front” of the drawings.
“Deluge”, 2007, Ink on paper, 72 x 69 inches
Mark Fox received his BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and his MFA from Stanford University. He is represented by Josh Pazda Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston TX and Berggruen Gallery, San Fransisco, CA. Fox has exhibited in New York City with solo shows at Robert Miller Gallery and Larissa Goldston Gallery and numerous group exhibitions, including Cheim & Read, Feature, Inc, and the Drawing Center. In 2021, Fox’s commission for the NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority, 40o54’37.9oN 73o50’33.5oW, was installed along the Metro North Railroad. Selected solo museum exhibitions include the Santa Barbara Arts Forum, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum (Cornell University), the Cincinnati Art Museum, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX. Selected group exhibits include the Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC. Fox’s solo exhibit at the Norton Museum of Art, “Journal of an Unseen Garden” (2016), a five-channel video installation, was created while on the Versailles Foundation residency at Monet’s garden in Giverny. Fox’s work can be found in many public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the USB Collection, the Progressive Collection, the Speed Art Museum, the Cleveland Clinic Collection, and the Anderson Collection at Stanford University among others.
“Hoodwinked”, 2018, Ink, acrylic, watercolor, marker, graphite, color pencil on paper, 49 x 60 inches