Deirdre Fox: Drawing Lines of Poetry

March 1 – May 9, 2020 

Curated by Yoonshin Park

*Reception Sunday, March 1, 3-6pm

Deirdre Fox Drawing Lines of Poetry

Virtual Artist Talk available now on YouTube. A series of short videos discussing the FlexSpace Exhibition

Virtual Gallery Talk with Deirdre Fox & Yoonshin Park on YouTube

In a series of 5 short videos, Deirdre, Yoonshin, and Liz talk about poetry, curating, and site responsive adaptability during the coronavirus pandemic.

Virtual gallery of Deirdre Fox’s installation in the FlexSpace. “Drawing Lines of Poetry”

From the Curator’s essay:

Deirdre Fox has been working closely with scavenged materials, found objects, and regenerated patterns to create site-responsive installations.

Fox’s receptive and fluid approach to materials and space is like a form of visual poetry. “I turn trash into visual poems, making work that appears disposable, but is not, opens up for discussion the contemporary paradigm of building in obsolescence. My drawing materials are disposable plastic bags, bottles, fabric scraps, and other detritus. I fold, crochet, knit, weave, collapse, inflate, stretch, and assemble these materials to be points, lines, and volumes held together by the site and light in which they are situated. I accommodate and countermand the language of the material and its physical volume.”

Deirdre Fox puts physical objects to abstract use in visual poems. She has exhibited at Hyde Park Art Center, Betty Rymer Gallery, Evanston Art Center, the Museum of Shenandoah Valley, Koehnline Museum of Art Gallery and the Swedish American Museum, among other venues. She has been awarded grants from the City of Chicago/Illinois Arts Counsel and was included in New American Paintings Midwest Edition in 2012 and as featured artist for Chicago Artists Month in 2008. Her work has been curated into White Columns Artists Registry and The Drawing Center Viewing Program. Residencies include Ragdale Foundation, the Center for Books and Paper Arts, the Chicago Open Studios Program, and the Cliff Dwellers Club. Public collections include the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection and the Center for Books and Paper Arts. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BS in Materials Science & Engineering from Northwestern University.

Curator Yoonshin Park is a Chicago based multimedia artist working with sculptural papers, artist books, and installations. She received her M.A. and M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

“Deirdre Fox: Drawing Lines of Poetry” Curator Statement