Kris Cox's work is heavily process oriented, utilizing various forms of media: wood putty, lead, wax, asphalt and pigment to create richly built and heavily layered paintings. These constructed paintings begin with a sense of rule and order and evolve through a working method of controlled chaos. The resulting works of art meld these opposite tendencies into a single, unified piece.

Cox describes his paintings as being created "by a process of applying multiple layers of pigmented putties, on wood panels with grids that have been chased into their surfaces". He goes on to say that the "grids, which appear irregularly through the layers of putty are a metaphor for memory, while the concentric, multi-chromatic rings are symbolic of time."

Kris Cox lives and works in Aspen, Colorado. His works are included in numerous private and public collections including: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, Claremont-McKenna College, Claremont, CA, General Mills Art Collection, Minneapolis, MN, Prudential Insurance Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA, and IBM Corporation, Chicago, IL.

















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