Rick Fox - Piscataqua Paintings
On View: February 3 – 25, 2017
Reception: Friday, February 3, 6 - 8 pm
”My initial impulse to paint the landscape is not to create a document of a meaningful place, although the process of painting does just that. When a ‘location’ for a series of paintings has exhausted itself, I spend time in a blind-stumble hoping to come upon the next discovered ‘hook’; the force of three colliding shapes, a seductive pair close tonal color relationships, or a nagging spatial sensation, etc. Whatever it is that stirs something up, it seems like a new and necessary opportunity presenting itself. The ‘hooks’ become a starting points from which things unfold, and then once underway I can find myself working at the same spot for a year . . . two” - Rick Fox
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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.