Presented by Franz Fox Studios and Gallery

ARTIST STATEMENT My paintings feature an ever changing genre of artwork – landscapes, Africana/Aboriginal, figurative abstract and a new body of work that I have been perfecting over my lifetime. I have coined this body of work Neoplasticity. It is in the movement of psychic automatism, which gives priority to the process, emphasizing impulse over premeditated composition. This involves the introduction of a main figural element as subject matter, painted with oils or acrylics, and fine detail added with pen and ink, creating a sense of shadow and movement, with hidden figures and symbols. My work is inspired by imagination, expression and feeling and is not a product of recreated reality. My landscapes are also products of my imagination, minimal mixing of pigments and wet on wet technique give the landscapes a sense of luminosity and complexity that is inherent in both the imagination and the world around us. The perspectives are at times extreme in order to create a surreal effect. ARTIST BIO Franz Fox was born on the island of Cuba under the Batista Regime. After the Castro government came into power, several uprisings resulted in immediate family members being jailed for defiance of the communist government. Soon thereafter, Fox’s family migrated to the US, just before the Cuban missile crisis. During his travels to England, France, Italy, Spain, and Holland, Franz perfected his art through his studies of landscape and architecture. He apprenticed with several local artists in Paris, France. His formal education is in architecture which gives him a unique mastery of perspective and spatiality. REPRESENTATIONAL HISTORY Franz’s painting, The Garden Past, was chosen by juror Paul Resika, for New York City’s First Street Gallery National Juried Exhibition, June 2011. Franz has had representation at the Agora Gallery in Chelsea in New York City. He has also been represented by the 2nd Floor Gallery in Mechanicsburg, PA and the Harrisburg Art Association Gallery in Harrisburg, PA. Franz participated in The Art Expo at Pier 92 in March 2013. He currently operates Franz Fox Studios and Gallery on Lancaster, PA’s Gallery Row at 136 N. Prince Street, Lancaster, PA 17603 (717)517-7053. Previously he owned and operated his own galleries; Gallery on Pomfret, in Carlisle, PA and Gallery 114 in Mechanicsburg, PA. He has been invited and participated in several art benefit auctions for WITF-TV, public television in Harrisburg, PA. He has sold his artwork through public actions and donated artwork to other local charities.