San Antonio mixed-media artist Sarah Fox combines whimsy and surrealism with a dash of outré explicitness in a new solo exhibition that opens this Friday. Consider it a potent, absinthe-like concoction — it tastes strong, and it goes to your head.
The show at the the South Side's Mercury Project takes inspiration from Fox's daily walks along the San Antonio River.San Antonio mixed-media artist Sarah Fox combines whimsy and surrealism with a dash of outré explicitness in a new solo exhibition that opens this Friday. Consider it a potent, absinthe-like concoction — it tastes strong, and it goes to your head.
You can see a bit of Cindy Sherman in Fox's work, a bit of the Brothers Quay, a bit of Sally Potter and Derek Jarman — unsettling, highly symbolic dreamworlds that are as imaginative as they are serious., Fox's new show at South Side space Mercury Project, takes inspiration from her daily walks along the San Antonio River and seeks to find a spiritual and resonant current from an often abused and neglected waterway more often used for discarding trash than reflection.
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