Gay Cox

My work is about “transvision” – about seeing beyond the bare facts in front of us to something vaster and full of grace, and about making that invisible reality present, expressive and tangible to others. I strive for this by using classical disciplines in figure, portraiture and landscapes but giving them free rein in a color-filled expressionism. The intent is to create works that seem to burst from the two-dimensional confines of the surface and create for the viewer new ways of seeing.
My subjects typically are drawn from the visible world: trees, flowers, patches of gardens and places, such as a cathedral or a town square in El Salvador. I research these objects extensively to “see” them in full.
I usually paint them in a series, with a central theme, such as creation, trees, light, transformation, mystery. I abstract the concrete and overlay multiple perspectives, striving to express the “lived” essence of an object and the experience of that object, rather than capture a basic form. I always work on several pieces at once, to avoid overpainting any one of them. I might have six surfaces progressing so I don’t end up doing six paintings on one surface.
To me, color can be tasted, it’s delicious. Although normally working ...

Education
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Diploma, 1988
Coursework, Mass. College of Art, Boston, MA; 1984
Leeds Beckett University, Yorkshire, England, graduate
Art and Education 1968.

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