Refiguration John Fox

About this book

Refiguration explores the artist’s return to representation in the mid 1980s, after fifteen years of painting non-figurative images. While his recent work shows traces of the figurative motifs from his early career, this book defines his new approach to the themes of places and people. Fox uses colour as structure and metaphor, as shapes and spaces, to reveal the truths of painting – along with its pleasures and surprises. This publication includes over 60 colour plates of the artist’s later oil paintings, watercolours and drawings, with texts by well-known art historian Sandra Paikowsky and the artists Peter Krausz and Michael Smith. John Fox (b.1927) lived and worked in Montreal, with lengthy annual visits to Venice, Italy from the mid 1970s until his death there in 2008.