"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No. 16."


Item Number: 192

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"Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No. 16" by Keith Fox is an original miniature acrylic painting which measures only 5 by 7 inches. This miniature painting is a canvas panel covered with vivid colors put together in a loosely-organized design. The arrangement is constructed from regularly repeated rectangles and includes the words "freedom of speech" spelled out in a fanciful speech balloon. Similarly, an array of musical notes--all of which themselves are contained in fanciful balloons--completes the design. "Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No. 16" is the 16th painting in a series of twenty paintings; this series is titled "A Free Speech Motif." From this same series, "Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No. 14" is in the collection of the Museum of Work, Setubal, Portugal and "Freedom-of-Speech Abstraction No. 11" is in the Art-to-Go Collection of the Iowa City Public Library.

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Keith Fox has paintings held in numerous public and private collections in the United States and abroad. His acrylic paintings are owned by the Museum of Work, Portugal, and a copy of his artist monograph The Phantasmagoria of a Shopper. Retrospective. 1994-1996., has been acquired by Columbia University. Keith has also authored art instructional materials for youth. Most recently, he has collaborated with Mass Communications Professor Marie Louise Dick, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, by recasting dialogues that she has written on the topic of women's healthcare as expressionistic paintings. In June 2004, these collaborative paintings were exhibited in the Art Gallery on the Westbrook College Campus of the University of New England, Portland, ME, as part of the "Women, Health, and Representation Conference, an Interdisciplinary Academic Conference" sponsored by the Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England Libraries. During this month of October 2005, these collaborative paintings are being exhibited in the St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center, Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Keith has taught drawing within the University of Connecticut and at the Community College of Rhode Island; he has taught watercolor painting at the University of Iowa. Within the Continuing Education program at the Rhode Island School of Design, Keith has taught specialty painting classes, which include Narrative Impulse: Painting a Story, In the Wake of the Fauves: Moving toward Abstraction, and Painting Alla Prima: Direct Painting from Sight.

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Keith Fox