KEITH FOX'S FREE SPEECH MOTIF
FREEDOM-OF-SPEECH ABSTRACTIONS
Artist's Statement
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.1," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
On display at Campbell Steel Art Gallery, Marion, IA.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.2," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
On display at Campbell Steel Art Gallery, Marion, IA.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.3," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
The Juan Manuel and Andrea Gayoso Private Collection,
Montevideo, Uruguay.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.4," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
On display at Studiolo Art Gallery, Iowa City, IA.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.5," © 1994, Keith Fox.
The Dr. Santa Casciani Private Collection, State College, PA.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.6," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
On display at Campbell Steel Art Gallery, Marion, IA.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.7," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
The Susan Bodnar Private Collection, Allison Park, PA.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.8," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.9," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
The Dr. Santa Casciani Private Collection, State College, PA.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.10," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
On display at Studiolo Art Gallery, Iowa City, IA.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.11," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
Permanent Public Collection, Iowa City Public Library, IA.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.12," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.13," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.14," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.15," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.16," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.17," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
On display at Studiolo Art Gallery, Iowa City, IA.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.18," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
On display at Campbell Steel Art Gallery, Marion, IA.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.19," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No.20," © 1994, Keith Fox.
5" high x 7" wide. Acrylic.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT BY KEITH FOX FOR THE SERIES:
"A FREE-SPEECH MOTIF-PAINTINGS."
My name is Keith Fox and I am an assemblagist who arranges
unrelated elements, such as, brush strokes, calligraphic
handwriting, color, texture, line, text, patchwork quilting,
images, shapes, and musical notes onto surfaces with paint for
artistic effect. In other words, although I am an assemblagist,
I am indeed a painter because I am one who paints as an artist
rather than one who creates sculptural compositions from
unrelated objects.
In this particular series of paintings, I have divided the word
"freedom" into the two syllables, "free" and "dom," and then
assembled these two syllables together by using a hyphen, which
is a punctuation mark typically used between the syllables of a
word when that word is divided at the end of a line of text.
Hyphenation is often arbitrary and practices vary. Furthermore,
on some of the canvas panels, I have deliberately taken the
liberty of hyphenating the word "freedom," even when I did not
necessarily need to divide this word "freedom" at the end of a
line of text, in order, as an assemblagist painter, to achieve
the desired artistic effect of a typographically eccentric
poetry through the fine art of painting about the idea of free
speech.
Finally, my intent as an assemblagist who is nevertheless a
painter and who enjoys both interpreting and representing the
idea of free speech with designs in paint is to delight people
with paintings whose concern is the idea of free speech.
"1996 Library Purchase Prize Winners."
"Keith Fox, one of the four 1996 Library Purchase Prize Winners."
February 1, 1997. Iowa City Public Library.
1996 Additions to the Permanent Public Collection: "Art-to-Go."
Links to other sites on Keith Fox's Web Site
Keith Fox's Home Page
Keith Fox's Artist's Collection Page
Keith Fox's Checkbook Man Page
Keith Fox's Curriculum Vitae Page
Keith Fox's "Making Headlines" Page
Keith Fox's Private Collectors Page
Keith Fox's Published Illustrations Page
Keith Fox's Still Life Page
Keith Fox's Teapot on a Tablecloth Page
December 11-16, 1993: Keith Fox's M.F.A. Show Press Release Page
Work Sold at a Benefit Auction Page
Keith Fox's Works in a Gallery Page: Studiolo
Keith Fox's Works in a Gallery Page: Campbell-Steele
IF YOU WISH TO CONTACT ME--AND I HOPE YOU DO--HERE'S HOW:
keith-fox@uiowa.edu
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