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Mark Fox
American, born 1963
2014
A color etching in which Mark Fox layers delicate, scratchy lines and pale washes to assemble a drifting collage of objects and gestures that reads like the surface of a near-memory.
A misty, almost whispery field of overlapping outlines—cups, bowls, tools and looping marks—barely emerge from the white ground, so familiar forms float and blur together as if remembered at a distance.
Working within printmaking’s long history of line and tone, this etching uses accumulation and erasure to push etching toward a painterly, memory-driven mode that reimagines how prints can record fleeting domestic detail and associative thought.
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 23 5/8 x 17 1/2" (60 x 44.5 cm); sheet: 32 11/16 x 25 9/16" (83 x 65 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Accession
572.2014
Palette
Exhibitions
