Dean Fox, Tea at Carla’s, 2024, Oil on canvas, 254 x 200 cm (100 x 78 3/4 in)
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Dean Fox, Tea at Carla’s, 2024 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 254 x 200 cm (100 x 78 3/4 in)
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Dean Fox, Lucy’s shadows, 2024, Oil on canvas, 200 x 220 cm (78 3/4 x 86 5/8 in)
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Dean Fox, Lucy’s shadows, 2024 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 200 x 220 cm (78 3/4 x 86 5/8 in)
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Dean Fox, The Narrator, 2024, Oil on canvas, 150 x 130 cm (59 x 51 1/8 in)
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Dean Fox, The Narrator, 2024 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 150 x 130 cm (59 x 51 1/8 in)
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Dean Fox, The picnic at midnight - a sin in the meadow, 2024, Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm (59 x 47 1/4 in)
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Dean Fox, The picnic at midnight - a sin in the meadow, 2024 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm (59 x 47 1/4 in)
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Dean Fox, Woman seated, 2024, Oil on canvas, 150 x 110 cm (59 x 43 1/4 in)
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Dean Fox, Woman seated, 2024 (Detail), Oil on canvas, 150 x 110 cm (59 x 43 1/4 in)
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Dean Fox, Woman seated study I, 2024, Oil on canvas, Unframed: 26 x 30 cm (10 1/4 x 11 3/4 in)
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Dean Fox, Woman seated study I, 2024 (Detail), Oil on canvas, Unframed: 26 x 30 cm (10 1/4 x 11 3/4 in)
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Dean Fox, Woman seated study III, 2024, Oil on canvas, Unframed: 24 x 18 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in)
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Dean Fox, Woman seated study III, 2024 (Detail), Oil on canvas, Unframed: 24 x 18 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in)
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Dean Fox, Study II, 2024, Oil on canvas, Unframed: 41 x 30 cm (16 1/8 x 11 3/4 in)
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Dean Fox, Study II, 2024 (Detail), Oil on canvas, Unframed: 41 x 30 cm (16 1/8 x 11 3/4 in)
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Dean Fox, Woman seated study IV, 2024, Oil on canvas, Unframed: 41 x 30 cm (16 1/8 x 11 3/4 in)
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Dean Fox, Woman seated study IV, 2024 (Detail), Oil on canvas, Unframed: 41 x 30 cm (16 1/8 x 11 3/4 in)
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Dean Fox, The Guest, 2024, Oil on canvas, Unframed: 30 x 26 cm (11 3/4 x 10 1/4 in)
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Dean Fox, The Guest, 2024, Oil on canvas (Detail), Unframed: 30 x 26 cm (11 3/4 x 10 1/4 in)
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Installation view, Scene VI: Dean Fox, Dreams of Pathways Home
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Having previously confronted the work of Impressionist masters such as Monet, Manet, Degas and Gauguin, this latest body of work sees Fox focus on the enterprise of the Post-Impressionist, Édouard Vuillard. As such, Fox’s paintings revel in those contests between flatness and modelling; plane and space; pattern and form which speak to Vuillard’s concept and craft. Working in concert with a focus on surface are the artist’s own marks which feel juicier, more bounteous and simultaneously more decorative yet divisive than ever before as he both articulates and cuts through Vuillard’s painterly language.
Made up of ten new works on canvas, Fox’s ‘Scene’ pushes further the connection and path between what we see and what we want to see, as is so often described, jewel-like, in Vuillard’s work. Landscape, figure, ground: all these formal demarcations slowly bleed into a language of abstraction so that Fox’s paintings begin to lose their hold on Vuillard’s vernacular and, slowly, begin to speak in their – Fox’s – own voice.