ABOUT THE ARTIST

Elizabeth Fox is a Florida born artist who relocated to Maine after living 18 years in New Orleans. She attended the Ringling School of Art, where she was named Best Fine Art Student in 1988. She was awarded a Florida Congressional Art Award. 

She has shown her works around the country. “Secret Life of a Paper Doll” is her third solo exhibition at the gallery.

The artist's website: www.elizabethfox.com

IN HER OWN WORDS

My oil paintings, rendered in a glass-like precision, are figurative with a social commentary undertone. While the color palette and hyper-defined subjects draw the viewer in, there is also a sense of isolation with a distinct blankness to the backgrounds as negative space, and starkness of characters, as though they are paper dolls come-to-life.

Tensions depicted between characters, objects, and colors bring focus to sexual, gender, and race relation, as well as vulnerabilities, leaving in question who or what is the dominant power. Dichotomies are introduced, not to suggest conclusions, but to show the absurdity and the strength of human life and relation, without bitterness, and to leave the viewer with a sense of a bigger picture.