Carson Fox
Louche

American artist Carson Fox originates from the hometown of William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi and currently resides in Trenton, New Jersey.  Fox’s work is produced from a heritage of American Southern gothic and folk art tradition, which relies heavily on the imprint that individual experience has on the artist.  The sculptural work in “Louche” reflects on her girlhood fixation for glittery surfaces and lush landscapes of silk flowers, artificial birds and butterflies.  Many of these pieces suggest to the viewer the gaudy nature of an “ideal beauty.” Fox states,
“I am interested in beauty, but I mistrust it.  Instead, I look for beauty that exists in tension with the materials or the circumstances that invent it.  I seek a dual role: to allow for fleeting escape into a fantasy world of sparkling surfaces, before drawing you back to confront contradictory materials, text, or uneasy placement.  The world of ‘Louche’ represents an uneasy mix of attraction amidst the disturbing conclusion that our
sugar-coated fantasies could never breathe in this corrupted air.” 

Fox has had numerous solo exhibitions, and has participated in many national and international group shows, including exhibitions at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, Wales, the Brunswiker Pavilion in Kiel, Germany, the Noyes Museum of Art, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum of American Art in Philadelphia, and Woodmere Museum.  She is the recipient of a Mid Atlantic Foundation Grant, a New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship/Grant in Sculpture, an International Residencies for Artists Travel Grant, and the New Jersey State Museum Society Award.  Her work is included in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Royal Museum of Belgium, Hofstra Museum, the Jersey City Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum.

Today, Carson Fox teaches printmaking, drawing, and criticism at New York University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  Additionally, she has taught at Harvard University and Rutgers University.

Carson Fox is represented by the Claire Oliver Gallery.