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Article: Alison Fox at ATM.(NEW YORK)(Critical Essay)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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"The world is too much with us," wrote Wordsworth--and he never had to live in a Manhattan apartment. The sense of physical clutter is implicit in the paintings of Alison Fox, whose jumbled, semi-recognizable forms and clashing colors convey the functional disorder of urban living. Emulating Cubist still lifes, Fox moves the flattened perspectives and compressed shapes from Parisian cafes to the Upper West Side milieu in which she grew up.
Among the 12 acrylic paintings in her first solo show--and the only work on paper--was the 5-by-9-foot Upper West Side Still Life (2004). Here, irregular shapes of garish hue and strips of collaged fabric form a kind of visual ...