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Harold Fox’s “Urban Visions”

Dancing along the edge of the fantastic and phantasmic, Harold Fox’s surrealist worlds are a perfect synthesis of gumshoe pasts and post-apocalyptic futures. Filled with a host of demented clowns, perfectly-built buxom bab

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Dancing along the edge of the fantastic and phantasmic, Harold Fox’s surrealist worlds are a perfect synthesis of gumshoe pasts and post-apocalyptic futures. Filled with a host of demented clowns, perfectly-built buxom babes, amputees and monkeys, Fox’s dreamlands suck you in and hold you captive, propelling you along a wild and wily ride through the dark and often demented corners of his mind: “last-stop” desert gas stations and parades, rain-soaked city streets, fog-choked ghost ships, decrepit urban cul-de-sacs, tin-shanty topless clubs and fancy art-deco parties where Satan himself is often the guest of honor. Along the way, you will meet the aforementioned characters in fits of revelry, enjoying to the hilt their own personal purgatories, and among them, you will usually find Fox as his fedora-ed, Bogart-inspired alter-ego, happy as a flimflam man to be strolling through such warped wonderfulness. You might also wonder why you’ve never seen Fox’s work before; a war veteran in his 70s, Fox hasn’t exhibited in over 40 years, save one small offering at Hyaena Gallery in Burbank last March. This current show at the SCA Project Gallery is therefore generating palpable heat among critics and collectors, and it should. Hailed as a sort of modern William Blake by SCA director and curator Cheryl Bookout, Fox seems destined, even at this late date, to turn our Puritanical world on its devilish ear. (Jane Mast) 

 

IF YOU GO

What: Harold Fox’s “Urban Visions.”

When/Where: Thru Sept. 4 at SCA Project Gallery, 218 S. Thomas St., Pomona.

Info: www.scaprojectgallery.com.

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