Deirdre A. Fox

The intersection between and disassociation of artifact and art, the making of tomorrow's artifacts, and the temporary verses permanent character of what we make intrigues me.

My "sculptural drawings" extend drawing from surface and wall into physical space, turning materials that come with purposes and meanings outside of artistic expression into art that relays loose forms of story.

I see drawing as an analytic process that translates objects real or imagined to surfaces as marks that come together into interpretations of objects and into new objects - the drawings - in themselves. Observing that a normal drawing material like graphite or paint as a particle or substance is a touchable object itself, yet not one necessarily viewed of itself beyond utility for drawing, I began turning physical toss aways like plastic grocery bags with a prior functional identity and purpose that has been reduced or degenerated into narrative object drawings that are completed by transitory light and the alterable arrangement in which the objects are located when hung at different physical sites.

Using identifiable discards encourages pausing, contemplating and confronting what it means to be accounted for, present and acted upon by the...

I graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, focusing on animation, painting/drawing and printmaking. I was selected for New American Paintings Midwest Edition 2012, received multiple CAAP grants from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council and completed residencies with The Center For Books and Paper Arts, The Ragdale Foundation, The City of Chicago Open Studio Program and Cliffdwellers Club of Chicago. My work is in the Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection and The Center For Books and Paper Arts, as well as private collections. My work is included in The Drawing Center Viewing Program and White Columns Curated Artist Registry.

New American Paintings 101 Midwest Edition 2012

Exhibition history on website, www.artbydado.com.