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| | ARTIST NAME: | Foxcroft, David | | ACCESSION NUMBER: | 2009.048.001 | | TITLE: | ENCROACHMENT WITH TINKER TOY | | DATE: | 2007 | | CATEGORY: | Mixed Media | | MEDIUM: | digital print, collage, found objects, glass plate | | SUPPORT: | wood panel | | DIMENSIONS: | Actual: 105.4 x 108 x 15 cm (41 1/2 x 42 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.) | | COLLECTION: | Alberta Foundation for the Arts |
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| | OTHER HOLDINGS: | Foxcroft, David | | ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Born in Calgary, mixed media artist David Foxcroft earned his Diploma in Fine Arts with a Major in Painting from the Alberta College of Art + Design (1977), where he then worked as a sessional instructor (1978 – 1985).
Foxcroft describes himself as interested in “hybridisation of the art disciplines.” His dynamic creations celebrate colour and form, including paintings ranging from abstract to representational, and sometimes based on whatever objects are piled around his studio, as with “Encroachment with Tinker Toy.” The piece employs digital print, collage, and found objects, and playfully depicts what appears to be a workshop vibrating with saturated colours, glossy sheens, and natural textures.
Foxcroft’s collage assemblages arise in part from what he has described as a “magpie-like” drive to collecting and repurposing objects, from shiny pieces of metal to scraps of canvas, sections of wood, and carefully-cut paper. Having moved from his earlier “low-relief” work of the 1980s, Foxcroft now creates “flex prints” in which he reproduces photographs on mylar sheets that he mounts onto centimetre-thick Gator Board. Being lighter than wood panels, Gator Board provides Foxcroft the convenience of portability with the durability to let him glue, screw, or bolt objects to the image surfaces, thus transforming 2D collages into 3D assemblages.
Foxcroft has won a project grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and three project grants from the Canada Council. In addition to mounting several solo exhibitions at Calgary galleries including the Paul Kuhn, the Stride, and Artfirm, Foxcroft participated in dozens of group shows, including Abstraction – On the Edge at Canmore’s The Edge Gallery, Fifteen at the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff, Homage to Marcel Duchamp at the Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario, and Made in Calgary at the Glenbow Museum. His work dwells in private collections across Canada and in Italy, as well as in the public collections of ACAD, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and the Canada Council. Young Contemporaries ’80 (London Regional Art Gallery, 1980), A Measure of Success (ACAD, 1985), and Artists of Alberta (University of Alberta Press, 1980) all reproduced work by Foxcroft.
For two decades, Foxcroft and his wife Kathy lived in Cochrane, Alberta, while co-owning and –operating FrameCo Custom Picture Framing in Calgary. They eventually relocated to Canmore (2008) where they opened The Edge Gallery, which periodically exhibits Foxcroft’s collages. |
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