Clark Fox is an artist who always seeks depth and spiritual interaction with his subjects; to view his work is to walk with him in his exploration of a great mystery. His work holds accountable American culture’s acceptance of its formation and the status quo of its ongoing development. His portraits of American presidents, and his cyclical meditations on the details of their expressions, beg a critical consideration of our prevailing historical narrative. These iterative paintings also reveal Fox’s mastery of formal technique, as he approaches and surrounds his subjects with elements of street art, pop art, pointillism, color field, and realism.

A Texas native, Fox spent much of his childhood in Houston and South Texas. Fox is an intensely prolific painter, and this exhibition draws upon select works from pointillist Texas landscapes to confrontational pop art satire. Insurgent: The Paintings of Clark Fox features his paintings of American presidents, especially his panoptic study of George Washington, as well as his assessments of social structures and economics in his ever-growing studies of oranges and Mr. Peanut as avatars of class and racial inequity.

Clark Fox is the first painter to have a solo show at Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art since it opened in 2016. His works are in the public collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Corcoran Gallery, and many more.

Insurgent: The Paintings of Clark Fox is scheduled to open on July 17th and be on view through October 24th, 2021 at Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art in Victoria, Texas.