Peggy Fox

About the Artist

Peggy Fox studied painting at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. After relocating to Baltimore and serving as director of the art department at St. Paul’s School, she embarked on a career as an independent photographer, focusing on editorial and colateral work. She continued with her noncommercial work using photographs in non traditional ways such as collage, painted photographs and transparencies. In 2009 her book with writer Alison Kahn, “Patapsco;Life along Maryland’s Historic River Valley” was published by The Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago. She also had a solo show at The Atlantic Gallery in New York City. Early in her career, Fox was featured in a one-person show at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1987 she created “Lost in the Cosmos,” a 10-by-200-foot mural executed in porcelain enamel on steel and commissioned by the Maryland Transit Administration for the Johns Hopkins Hospital Metro station. She has received two Maryland Arts Council grants and her work is exhibited nationally. She is now focused entirely on her personal work.

Artist's Statement

Artist statement.08 3 Throughout my career as an artist and a professional photographer I have been directed by two concerns: my commercial work demanded high technical proficiency and my personal work was directed by a desire to push the boundaries of traditional photographic image making. I made photographs for publications mainly for educational and institutional clients in the Mid Atlantic area, as well as engaging in several compelling documentary projects, working almost exclusively with black and white film. I maintained a parallel career combining photographs, paint and other materials. This is the work that continues to engage me. I work from a library of my own photographs, combining images employing a varied subject matter. These constructions are narrative in their point of view, and are personal and experiential in nature. Collage traces it’s roots to surrealism, and it is this reprisal of the surrealistic discourse from a contemporary point of view that engages me. I use collage to make unique images and digital collage to make archival fine art prints., I travel widely to gather my images, using street photography, architectural spaces, patterning, shadows and graffiti to make my mages, which have their roots in philosophy and literature. I continue to use materials and concepts in an eclectic sense compelled by new ideas.