JOSH FOX
IMPOSUKE BOOLBOOL
Curated by Jonathan Shorr

For Immediate Release May 20, 2022

GARNER Arts Center is pleased to present Josh Fox’s first solo exhibition of paintings.  This exhibition, entitled IMPOSUKE BOOLBOOL, encompasses some of the artists work from 2018-2020.  Josh has been creating ground-breaking visual art since he was in his early twenties--drawing, painting, video, film and theater. He is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning writer director and an internationally recognized spokesperson and leader on the issue of fracking and extreme energy development. 

The combination of striking expressionism and a provocative cry for social justice give Mr. Fox’s paintings the same immediate arresting quality as his performance and film work.  In his paintings, he has created an expressionistic iconography which is visually emblazoned with a scrawl of extra-linguistic words that indicate the breakdown of language.  The result is a visually arresting admonition, an apocalyptic warning coming to the viewer in a language beyond initial comprehension.

These evocative and unexpected paintings reveal his ability to experiment with raw energy, refined new language, and irresistible color.  These paintings are a profound evocation of the artist's expressive mind and show us a way to understand our own.  Fox plans to create an onstage performance featuring only these extra-linguistic words in combination with the evocative visual imagery that he has created in his paintings. 

Josh’s prolific work spans three decades in multiple media including contemporary art, theater, film, performance, music, and writing. His work has been received with critical praise, outrage, controversy and immense popularity with tens of millions of viewers, supporters, and fans worldwide. 

He is the creator/director of seven feature films, over three dozen full length works of performance art and theater, dozens of short films and video works and dozens of published writings, both short and long form, and innumerable paintings and drawings throughout.   His visual arts portfolio of three decades includes paintings, ink and pastel drawings, sculpture, installations, performances, audio soundscapes, musical composition, and set pieces.  The New York Times has called him an “Adventurous impresario of the New York avant-garde” who is “Fearlessly inventive…virtuosic…very powerful…and makes us want to question ourselves and make deeper sense of what binds the everyday to the cataclysmic.”

His Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning film GASLAND sparked an international movement against fracking and was seen in 30 countries worldwide by an audience of over 100 million people.  The film was widely praised for it’s beauty as well as its power, with Variety calling it “The rare example of cinema art that is also an organizing tool…one of the most expressive and effective” films of the era. 

Josh’s stage work has earned similar praise for it’s combination of stunning visuals and emotional power. “Hellish and wondrous visions…Josh Fox is one of downtown's most audacious auteurs.” and “Hallucinatory…chilling…stunning…” (Time Out)

Instagram: @joshfoxpaintings @joshfoxfilm 

For images and further information please contact Curator Jonathan Shorr at 646-821-7095.