Using painting as a springboard for fiction and critique, Jason Fox’s canvases picture a host of invented characters: each comically monstrous in their distortion of social stereotype. Describing his work as “portraits of being stuck inside a big, powerful, stupid, funny, crazy, violent, ignorant, dangerous head looking into a mirror”, Fox draws equally from art history, cartooning, and cult films, to provoke an edgy subversion of popular culture. Bringing into question issues of race, gender, class, and politics, Fox’s satirical commentary is underscored by a masterful command of quotation and technique. In Star Star, Fox shrouds his withered oracle with an American flag, creating a totem of protest and humour; a scathing joke underscored by the addition of a red clown nose attached to the painting’s surface.
The Flash Art article ‘U.S Pain. New American Figuration’* written over ten years ago by Francesco Bonami described a generation of American artists that included Jim Shaw, Raymond Pettibon, Sue Williams and Jason Fox, all commonly linked by their satirical views on art and society and their ‘figuration and language as a cure to all its creative and existential, pathological ills.
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Through Fox’s technique of loose brushwork, the use of a restricted palette and mimicry of a cartoon drawing style, a sense of black humour pervades over the abstract beauty and grotesque symbolism that is created
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