“MOTION PARALLEX” AT FRANKLIN PARRASCH GALLERY THROUGH 4/25/09.
Their story is a bit of a New York artist’s fairytale; it’s a bit Kerouac. Jason Fox and Alexis Rockman, both born and raised in New York, have little in common stylistically. However from 1998 to 2002 both shared a studio space that was separated by an 8-ft high wall. Neither saw the other’s art. But they did chat. They talked for hours and hours— about life and art, and all that falls between.
So though stylistically they greatly differ both explore similar themes of pop culture, survival, adaptation and evolution.
“The characters and scenarios concocted in Fox's images derive from sources as diverse as super-hero comics, science fiction movies, hard rock album covers, and news photographs. At the same time, he executes a formal sensibility as sinuously informed by Jasper Johns as it is by El Greco. The resulting visions are at once obnoxiously gruesome and perversely alluring.
From the other side of the studio wall, Rockman's own altered state, eco-centric themes center upon the supernatural re-orientation of the natural. Gargantuan insects, morphed mammals, and carnivorous flora find center stage in his sometimes aggressive, sometimes tranquil, and often humorous landscapes. Deftly shifting techniques, in various combinations, from the sharpness of close-up realism to the looseness of color-field splash, Rockman alerts the viewer that these creatures are his alone, and they exist solely for his art.”
The result, “Motion Parallax,” is being exhibited at the Franklin Parrasch Gallery through April 25th.
Jason Fox | Alexis Rockman, Motion Parallax
February 27 - April 25, 2009
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