American artist Carson Fox’s work relies heavily on the imprint that individual experience has on the artist, and centers on the production of sculpture, installation, and printmaking.

Carson Fox received her masters of fine arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, her BFA from University of Pennsylvania, and a four- year studio certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Arts and Design, The Royal Museum of Belgium, the Noyes Museum of Art, the Newark Public Library, the Jersey City Museum, the Morris Museum of Art, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado, the Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, O. K. Harris Gallery, New York, the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, the Brunswiker Pavilion Kiel, Kiel, Germany, and the Association Mouvment Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, France. In 2009, Fox completed a permanent public art project commissioned by the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority at the Seaford LIRR Station in Seaford, NY. Fox has received grants from the University of Rhode Island, the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Mid Atlantic Art Foundation, a Willem Emil Cresson Award, and a New Jersey Print and Paper Fellowship at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper. In 2015, Carson Fox finished a major public art installation at the University of Arkansas for their newly complete math and science center, Champions Hall.

Carson Fox is represented by Linda Warren Projects in Chicago, IL and Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. Fox lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

EDUCATION

M.F.A. Rutgers University

B.F.A. University of Pennsylvania

Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC ART

2018
Sticks and Stones, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL

2017
Blue Green Brainbow, Boston University, Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, Boston, MA, permanent public art installation

2016
Permafrost, Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, Brooklyn, New York

2015
Crystal Meteorite Shower, Champions Hall, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, permanent public art installation

2014
Mimesis, Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
Vanishing, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

2013
Crystal Lab, Morgan Lehman Gallery, project room, New York, NY

2011
Bi-Polar, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

2010
Cold Comfort, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ice Storm, Redux Center for Contemporary Art, Charlestown, SC (catalog)

2009
Blue Sky Pursuits Metropolitan Transit Authority, Seaford Station, Seaford, NY, permanent public art installation

2008
Bonne’ Bouche’, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Inflorescence, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007
Candyland, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
Two Seasons, Adelphi University Gallery, Garden City, NY

2006
Fight or Flight, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (catalog)
Carson Fox and Mary Temple (two-person exhibition), The Martin Museum of Art, Waco, TX

2005
Louche, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

2004
Reliquary, Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY
Fleisher Art Memorial Challenge Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

2001
Broken, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Lost Child, Women’s Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale, NY

2000
Damage, Mary H. Dana Woman Artist Series, Douglas College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, curator: Ferris Olin (catalog)
Broken Hearts, Montgomery County College Gallery, Montgomery County, PA

1999
Beauty Queens, Rider University Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ (catalog)
Loss, Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

1998
Layered Self, Artists House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1997
Carson Fox: Recent Works, Artists House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1995
Carson Fox: New Prints, Artists House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1993
Carson Fox, Saint Donat’s Art Centre, Cardiff, WALES

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

Adorned, Beauty in Excess, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery at the Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas, curated by Cynthia Nourse Thompson, forthcoming

Second Nature, Boulder Museum of Natural History, Boulder, CO, curated by Victoria Fuller

Through Our Eyes, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, curated by
Linda Dubin Garfield, forthcoming

The Box Project: Works from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection, the Textile Museum at George Washington University

2017

Artists’ Book Cornucopia VIII, Abecedarian Artists’ Books, Denver, CO,
curated by Alicia Bailey

Authors and Artists, Adelphi University Center Gallery, Garden City, NY

Unveiled, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

New Works, Austin Art Projects, Palm Desert, CA

The Box Project: Works from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

2016

The Box Project: Works from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection, Fowler Museum of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Revealed Terrain, Center for Books Arts, New York, NY, curated by Cynthia Thompson

New Yorkers, Morris-Warren Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Katherine Bradford

2015

Precision: Evidence of Care, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Sarah Campbell (through 2016)

Natural Allusions, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C., curated by Jackie Battenfield

2014

Garden Party, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York

Breathless, Rush Arts, New York, NY

Authors and Artists, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY

Taking Pleasure, Bergen County College, Paramus, New Jersey

2013

Authors and Artists, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY

2012

Temple of Flora, Art Gallery at Eagle Hill Institute, Steuben, Maine, curated by Julia and Shane Stratton

China Artist Association International Print Invitational, Shenzhen, China curated by Lynne Allen

Artist Books, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, curated by Eliz Alahaverdian

The Sketchbook Project Limited Edition, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY

Postcards from Long Island, Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, curated by Christopher Saucedo

Invitational Still Life, Artist House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA curated by Lorraine Riesenbach

Artists and Authors, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, curated by Eliz Alahaverdian

2011

The Sketchbook Project (traveling) Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, Space Gallery, Portland, ME, Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC, The Granite Room, Atlanta, GA, Form/Space Atelier, Seattle, Washington, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL, Full Sail University, Winter Park, FL

Single Fare, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

PCNY Artist Showcase, The National Arts Club, New York, NY

Patchogue Biannual Invitational, Briarcliffe College Art Gallery, Patchogue, NY

Artists and Authors, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, curated by Eliz Alahaverdian

2010

Anguish, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, curated by Cynthia Thompson (catalog)

Wordplay: The Lettering of “On Language,” The New York Times Building, New York, NY

Hair Tactics, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado

Fuzzy Logic, Des Lee Gallery, Sam Fox School of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, curated by Audrey Mast

Looks Good On Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY, curated by John Nickle

Artists and Authors, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, curated by Eliz Alahaverdian

2009

Loose Ends: Contemporary Fiber Arts, Lincoln Center Galleries, Fort Collins, CO curated by Jeanne Shoaff

MTA Arts for Transit 25 th Anniversary Exhibition, NY Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY

6th Graphic Biennial, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, RUSSIA

Hysteria: Past and Present, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, curated by Anonda Bell (catalog)

Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, (traveling) Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, (September 20, 2008 – February 1, 2009) curated by David Revere McFadden (catalog)

Artists and Authors, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, curated by Eliz Alahaverdian

2008

Black and White, Six at Sixth Gallery, Tucson, AZ, curated by Lauren Rabb

Dangerous Women, Adelphi Klapper Exhibition Hall, Garden City, NY

Chroma, Adelphi University Gallery, Garden City, NY

Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, (traveling) Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN, (April 25-August 24, 2008) curated by David Revere McFadden (catalog)

(More) Dangerous Women, DFN Gallery, New York, NY, curated by John Nickle

Contemporary Repetition, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ, curated by Christopher Seiz

Faculty Exhibition, Adelphi University Gallery, Garden City, NY

Artists and Authors, Swirbul Library, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY

2007

Feminine Mystique, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado (catalog)

Graphic Communications, Estonian National Library, Tallinn, ESTONIA, curated by Loit Jõekalda

Summertime Blues, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY

Fifteen Years of the Brodsky Center, (traveling 2006-2007) Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

5th Graphic Biennial, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, RUSSIA

Shortcut to Heaven, Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA

In Words: The Art of Language, The Museum of the University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Normal, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Peter Drake

Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, curated by David Revere McFadden (catalog)

Artists and Authors, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, curated by Eliz Alahaverdian

2006

What I Did On My Summer Vacation, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY

Hair, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

Confluence 2006, Arts India-Aicon Gallery, New York, NY

A Delicate Constitution, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Melissa Caldwell

Hair Filigrees, Carson Fox, long-term installation: Philadelphia International Airport, Exhibitions Program

100 Artists Make Prints (traveling to Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE; Beirut, LEBANON; Amman, JORDAN; Bethlehem, West Bank; Jerusalem, ISRAEL; Tel Aviv, ISRAEL) The Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ

2005

Cheongju International Biennale, Cheongju City, REPUBLIC OF KOREA, curated by David Revere McFadden Things to Come, Claire Oliver Fine Arts, New York, NY

Works on Paper, Hamilton Gallery, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Dan Miller

Earthly Delights, Claire Oliver Fine Arts, New York, NY

The Academy at Penn, Kroiz Gallery, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Sean Gannon

Future Perfect, Claire Oliver Fine Arts, New York, NY

2004

New Faculty, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

New Acquisitions, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ

Dear Fleisher, Samuel S. Fleisher Memorial Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibition, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Gallery Artists Group Exhibition, Claire Oliver Fine Arts, New York, NY

3D: Diversity, Discourse, Dimension, Southern Graphics Council, Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, curated by Catherine Bebout

Black and White Response, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis, MD, curated by Christina Manucy

Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Mason Gross Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Sculpture Fellowship Exhibition, New Jersey Council on the Arts, Camden, NJ

2003

Sixieme Triennale Mondiale D’Estampes Petit Format 2003, American representative, Chamalieres, FRANCE (catalog)

Somatic, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, curated by Cynthia Thompson

Drawing Upon Structure, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE, curated by Susan Issacs

2002

A Way With Words, The Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

Resisting Categories: Prints, The Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ, curated by Lynne Allen (catalog)

Small is Beautiful, Studio Eleven, Lexington, VA

2001

I Love New York, O. K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

Kunstlerhaus Cismar Stipendiaten 2000-01, Brunswiker Pavilion Kiel, Kiel, GERMANY (catalog)

Works on Paper, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, curated by Thelma Golden

Four Printmakers, Valencia College, Orlando, FL, curated by Michael Smith

Installed Collections/Collections Installed, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, curated by Lynne Allen

Fringe, Artists House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

New Jersey Fine Art Annual, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, curated by Hsiao-ning Tu

Off the Wall, Bristol Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ, curated by Kate Somers (catalog)

Fox, Hamilton, and Mitchell: Three Women Printmakers, Atlantic Cape Community College, Mays Landing, NJ

Turning the Page: Contemporary Artists Books, The Marshall Arts Gallery, Memphis, TN, curated by Cynthia Thompson

1999

Innovations in Contemporary Printmaking, Artworks, Trenton, NJ, curated by Judith Brodsky

1997

An Unbroken Line, The Museum of American Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)

1995

Works on Paper, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

1994

International Artists in Residence, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, WALES

1993

International Printmakers, Llantaman Glange Arts Center, Cardiff, WALES

GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS

2018
Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant, Garden City, NY

2017
Adelphi University Research Release Award, Garden City, NY

2016
Adelphi University Research Release Award, Garden City, NY

2015
Adelphi University Research Release Award, Garden City, NY

2014
Jixiang First Commune Artist Residency, Lijiang, Yunnan, CHINA
Adelphi University Research Release Award, Garden City, NY

2013
Adelphi University Research Release Award, Garden City, NY
Visual Arts Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

2012
Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant, Garden City, NY

2011
Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant, Garden City, NY

2009
Adelphi University Research Release Award, Garden City, NY

2006
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant, New York, NY
Confluence 2006, Arts India, artist in residence, New York, NY

2004
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, artist in residence, Omaha, NE

2003
New Jersey Print and Paper Fellowship, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ

2001
New Jersey Council on the Arts Sculpture Grant, Trenton, NJ,
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant, Baltimore, MD
International Residencies for Artists Travel Grant, New York, NY
Kunstlerhaus Kloster Cismar/Gromitz, artist in residence, Kiel, GERMANY
Women’s Studio Workshop, artist in residence, Rosendale, NY

2000
New Jersey State Museum Society Award, Trenton, NJ

1998
Frans Masereel Print Center, artist in residence, Kasterlee, BELGIUM

1993
Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, College of Art, artist in residence, Cardiff, WALES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2017

Artist Introduces Commissioned Work, The Daily Free Press, Dave Sebastian, September 15, 2017

Art Inspired by Science at Kilachand Center, BU Today, John O’Rourke, September 14, 2017

Commuting Art, Long Island Pulse, Mary Gregory, March 27

Mourning as a Public Act, The Chart, Vol. 2, No. 2, Veronica A. Perez, January

2016

“Anguish” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland Press Herald, Daniel Kany, November 20

The Box Project: Works from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection, editors: Jenelle Porter, Matilda McQuaid, Cotsen Foundation for Academic Research, Los Angeles, CA, forthcoming: June 2016

See Yourself X, Madeline Schwartzman, Black Dog Publishing Press, London, UK, forthcoming: March 2016

2015

Rooted in Nature, But Not Always Natural, the Washington Post, Mark Jenkins, March 6

Group Show Celebrates Nature at Addison Ripley, the Georgetown Dish, So Sauc, February 5

The Sketchbook Project World Tour, Sara Elands Peterman and Steven Peterman, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, NJ

2014

Flowers, Yes, but Figures, Too, at ‘Garden Party,’ The New York Times, Aileen Jacobson, March 21

Eaton Center: Out of the Land, Michael J. Crosbie, Images Publishing Group, Victoria, Australia, 2014, page 84

New York’s Underground Museum, Sandra Bloodworth and William Ayres, Monacelli Press, New York, NY, 2014, pages 182-183

2013

Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, editor Sharon Louden, Intellect Press, the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2013, pages 50-5

2011

Bi-Polar Opposes the Norm, New Britain Herald, December 21

2010
Cold As Ice, Charleston City Paper, Dustin J. Pitts, September 15

Ice Storm: Carson Fox, Redux Contemporary Art Center, David Revere McFadden, exhibition catalog essay

2009

All Dressed Up Like Art Galleries, The New York Times, Ruth La Ferla, January 28

Style Makers:  An Up-Close and Personal Look at Four Chicago-Based Art Aficionados, Luxe Magazine Vol. III, Issue I, Taryn Bickley, February

Hysteria, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, Anonda Bell, exhibition catalog

Loose Ends: Fiber Arts Exhibit Ties Them All Together, Fort Collins Coloradoan, Stacey Nick, September 10

Loose Ends Surprises with Untraditional Approaches to Age-Old Arts, Reporter-Herald, Jeannie Lancaster, September 11

2008

The Feminine Mystique, Jersey City Museum, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, catalog

Hair-esies, IdN magazine, v14n6 Music + Image Issue

2007

Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, David Revere McFadden, catalog

On Language, William Safire, New York Times Magazine, November 25 artist illustration

Many Faces, Many Forms, The Star Ledger, Dan Bischoff, September 30

Back To The ‘Burbs, Art & Antiques Magazine, Edward Gomez, May

Art That Eyes 21st Century Feminism, The Los Angeles Times, Suzanne Muchanic, March 4

The Fine Art of Crafts, The Christian Science Monitor, April Austin, February 16

Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting, The New Yorker, February 12

Normal, Time Out Chicago, Issue 101, Lauren Weinberg, February 1-7 In The Eye Of The Collector, The Los Angeles Times, Suzanne Muchanic, January 26

Talking Shop with Claire Oliver, Chelsea Now, Shane McAdams, January 12-18

2006

A Delicate Constitution, American Craft, David Barquist, October/November

Gallery Has a Lock on Impact of Hair, The Arizona Republic, Richard Nilsen, Phoenix, AZ, July 28

Artistic Excursion, Newindpress, New York, NY, Rosella Stephen, June 22

All That Glitters, Style Weekly, William Spruill, April 12

Planet Rock, Philadelphia Weekly, Roberta Fallon, April 12

Flight or Flight: Carson Fox, 1708 Gallery, Joan Markowitz, exhibition catalog

What Nature is Really Trying to Tell Us, Style Weekly, Brandon Reynolds, April 5

Artists Display Realism in Work, The Baylor Lariat, Amanda Toller, January 24

2005

Pattern and Decoration Reshaped at BMoCA, The Daily Camera, Elizabeth Marglin, November 6

2004

Somatic, Art Papers, David Hall, March/April

Real Scenes are Surreally Seen, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Edward J. Sozanski, January 16

Somatic, Number 47: Journal of the Arts, Jeremy Hauck, Memphis, TN, Winter

2001

Sculpture Springs Anew, U.S. Review, Nicole Plett, Princeton, NJ, May 2

Unraveling Childhood, The Woodstock Times, Woodstock, NY Susan Piperato, February 15

2000

The Clothes Off Her Back, The Home News Tribune, East Brunswick, NJ, Laurie Granieri, December 10

Time, the Avenger, Philadelphia Weekly, Gerald Brown, September 10

SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Boston University, Kilachand Center, Boston, MA
Neapolitan Collection, Winnetka, IL
Land O’Frost Corporation, Munster, IN
University of Arkansas, Champions Hall, Fayetteville, AR
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
Kirkland and Ellis, Chicago, IL
Cotsen Foundation for Academic Research, Los Angeles, CA
Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, RUSSIA
The Royal Museum of Belgium, Antwerp, BELGIUM
Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Noyes Museum of Art, Loveladies, NJ
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Morris Museum of Art, Morristown, NJ
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
New Jersey State Museum of Art, Trenton, NJ
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY
New Jersey Academy of Medicine, Princeton, NJ
Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ

I am interested in beauty, but I mistrust it. Instead, I look for beauty that exists in the tension between nature and artifice, the awe of visual spectacle, and humanity’s desire to bridle nature and time.

In Sticks and Stones, I consider what it means to be American. Vibrantly hued sculptures of grasses, sticks and rocks comprise a large part of the exhibition with black and white portraits acting as a visual counterpoint.

In the works of grasses and sticks, I consider the outward signs that subtly express the health of the American middle-class household. Greener Grass is a neatly manicured sculpture of bright green grass crafted from thousands of hand-cut resin blades that acts as a meditation on an ideal of American life- the perfect lawn. Prairie Grass, in contrast, suggests an unruly swath of earth that refuses to be restrained. A collection of life-sized piles of neatly bound blue sticks reveal a methodical and deliberate arrangement that might be found outside a tidy house with a well-swept front walk. Yet the unnatural colors and clear artificiality of the objects suggest that this control is simply a fantasy that exists in personal longing, located outside of true experience.

History preoccupies me in small and grand terms. My interest in time has been a consistent subtext of the natural forms I select — ¬the formation of rocks and minerals, the rings of trees — all mark time. Lately, this idea joins increasingly formal concerns of color, particularly in the wall-mounted Timberland series of tree cross-sections which explore variations in red, blue, orange and violet.

Gold Rush features an 8’ x 12’ expanse of gold rocks suspended with clear threads in midair. The cloud of floating rocks represents the pleasure of belief before true circumstances unfurl, and specifically refers to the great American gold rush of the mid-1800s that drew thousands westward. The faux rocks, modeled after pyrite (commonly called fool’s gold) represent a lie twice removed: the objects are made of cast resin to represent (fake) rocks that were commonly mistaken for (fake) gold.

By contrast, my recent works on paper are devoid of color. The 8”-round portraits originated as steel-cut engravings from the Victorian era. The prints were highly stylized with prescribed textures of specific dots, dashes, and cross-hatching to render the image with surprising realism. Contemplating these highly crafted images now compels me to consider both the printmaker and subject, once so current and timely, now passing into obscurity. My own experience with these objects is evidenced through the complex patterns of holes I press across the surface, willfully expressing their disappearance, while appreciating the irony that as I renew a dialogue with these antiquated images, time is working to erase me, too.