Message in a Bottle

Where passion meets color. My paintings are meant to be lived with, in office, home, or corporate setting. They are meant to engage the viewer, to excite or relax, and engage the viewer.

Marilyn Fox Artist Statement

​       Primarily, art consists of nonobjective paintings on paper or stretched canvas. I use acrylic and sometimes mixed media. I start with large gestural strokes on my surface. It’s much like writing the first line of a poem. From that point, I built layers of paint, often scratching into the surface to reveal layers below. I continually add marks until the surface reveals itself and points me in a certain direction. Color and markmaking are the subject in my art.

            Recently, I have defined my work with loose and gestural florals. This guides my work into a new direction. This new direction adds a new breadth, and only adds more naturalness to my art.Renee Phillips, Director and Curator, Manhattan Arts International, NYC, NY, wrote: Few contemporary abstract artists possess the impactful creative versatility and skill that Marilyn Fox communicates through her expressive artwork. Her astounding expertise in combining a wide spectrum of colors, spontaneous gestural brushstrokes, and mark-making brings a captivating depth and dimension to her artistic vocabulary. Like a well-composed symphony Marilyn orchestrates a diverse medley of forms, hues, and textures that juxtapose similarity and contrast, harmony and counterbalance, and tension and release. They coalesce in compositions that evoke the sensations found in the natural world as well as aspects of the human experience. 

Marilyn takes us on a visual and visceral journey through an expanse of moods that range from dramatic, alluring, dark and mysterious, to ethereal, expansive, luminous, and meditative. We encounter animated, lively areas that enliven us and discover a balance of atmospheric spaces for us to pause, breathe, and reflect.