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LARRY ZOX

Lawrence "Larry" Zox (b. May 31, 1937 - d. December 16, 2006)

Lawrence "Larry" Zox (b. May 31, 1937 - d. December 16, 2006) was an American painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionist, Color Field painter and a Lyrical Abstractionist, although he did not readily use those categories for his work.

A native of Des Moines, Larry Zox is an abstract artist who utilizes color and space in a unique way. He utilizes color combinations with references to nature, music, or the city that surrounds him. But often there is a black section that is placed in the work for the sake of the painting's aesthetic alone. The work ranges from the harmonious to the unexpected. All the work is done with a tremendous amount of technical control. Zox received his education including the study of Oriental Art History at Oklahoma University, Norman, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa and with German artist George Grosz at the Des Moines Art Center. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and has received grants from the National Council of the Arts and the Ester and Adolph Gottlieb Foundation. He has been an Artist-in Residence at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Dartmouth College, and Yale University. Zox moved to Minimalist acrylics in the 1960s, featuring geometric shapes such as chevrons, diamonds and triangles. In the early 1970s, large-scale color fields were centralized with bands of color along the sides, sometimes as wide as the central color, moving diagonally or vertically downward, singly or in groups. During the next several years, colors were applied in looping lines with oil sticks and brushes, and larger areas were sometimes poured on and spread into wet grounds. Later, narrow panels such as "Catawba" emphasize color changes in the ground using many shades of one color, often muted or darkened with grey, in thick, steady brushstrokes. Zox was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1967; a grant by the National Council for the Arts, 1969; and a grant from the Adolph Gottlieb Foundation, 1985. He exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art Annual and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
an American painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionist, Color Field painter and a Lyrical Abstractionist, although he did not readily use those categories for his work.

Larry Zox is one of the principal representatives of the generation of young painters following the era of the Abstract Expressionists.
His work has been exhibited in many one-person and group shows including the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); the Museum of Modern Art (NY); Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York); Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY).

Zox's work is represented in the following public collections: Empire State Plaza Collection, Albany; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY); and the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY).

He died in 2006 at the age of 69.

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1994 - C.S. Shulte Gallery, Millburn, New Jersey
1993 - The Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
1992 - Robert Stein Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1991 - Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
1991 - Percival Gallery, Des Moines, lowa
1990-91 - Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
1990 - Rubiner Gallery, West Bloomfield, Michigan
1989 - Percival Gallery, Des Moines, lowa
1987 - Percival Gallery, Des Moines, lowa
1986 - Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
1985 - Rubiner Gallery, West Bloomfield, Michigan
1982 - Salander-O'Reilly Gallery, New York, New York
1981 - Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1981 - Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas
1981 - Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Rorida
1979 - Allen Rubiner Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan
1978 - Medici-Berenson Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
1975-76 - Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, New York
1975 - Daniel Templeton Gallery, Paris, France
1974 - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, lowa
1974 - Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1973 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1973 - Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, New York
1971 - Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio
1970 - Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1969 - American Gallery, New York, New York
1968-71 - Komblee Gallery, New York, New York
1968 - Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Gemmany
1968 - Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
1967-69 - J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Michiga
1964-66 - Komblee Gallery, New York, New York
1963-66 - American Gallery, New York, New York
42 X 30 inches minor creasing handling.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio
American Republic Insurance Corporation, Des Moines, lowa
Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Columbia Broadcasting System, NYC
Cornell University, Ithica, New York
Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, lowa
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Hopkins Art Center,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
J.L. Hudson Company, Detroit, Michigan
Indianapolis Art Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
National Bank of Des Moines, Des Moines, lowa
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Philip Johnson Collection Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
South Mall Project, Albany, New York Tate Museum, London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

AWARDS

1985 - Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Grant
1969 - National Council of the Arts
1967 - Guggenheim Fellowship
Color Field painting is an abstract style that emerged in the 1950s after Abstract Expressionism and is largely characterized by abstract canvases painted primarily with large areas of solid color. An alternate but less frequently encountered term for this style is chromatic abstraction.

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