Danny Fox: Some Mornings Catch a Wraith

Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present Danny Fox: Some Mornings Catch a Wraith, an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Los Angeles-based, British artist, Danny Fox. This show marks Fox’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view through May 4, 2019.

Danny Fox’s most recent body of work presents a vibrant collection of figures – both real and imagined – that comprise a poetic narrative of the artist’s surrounding environment coupled with observations of contemporary life. Fox’s portraits exude an insightful sense of atmosphere and temperament as they probe intimate moments of humanity, while the artist’s own fragile moments of heartache, remorse, and revelation infuse the work with a raw spectrum of emotion that translates to a compelling artistic range. Fox coalesces these moments with a myriad of rich cultural and historical references: Greek mythology, a captain in the French Foreign Legion, Puritan history. Compelling imagery such as a soldier on horseback or a single figure at a bar proposes a contemporary translation of cultural iconography, thus subtly evoking in the art object an enveloping passage of time.