Alex Foxton

Alex Foxton’s (b. 1980, England) painting takes traditional images of masculinity, deconstructs their archetypes and reveals their complexity and ambiguity. Alex Foxton explores the personal history and humanity of the heroes or mythical figures that inhabit our western culture, painting a new narrative in the hollow of the history known to all. The figures depicted are stretched, torn between a calm face and an expressive body, tortuous or ecstatic, underlining the tension of each character.

Foxton tries to get rid of the objective and dominant gaze that shapes these virile male figures to reveal an embodied vision and to let a desire for these bodies come to life.

He graduated with a Masters Degree from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2006) and now lives and works in Paris, FR. Foxton has been the subject of multiple solo exhibitions including Swoon, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, FR (2024); Trade, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA (2023); and Sunshower (after Stanley Stellar), Kapp Kapp, New York, NY (2023); in addition to multiple group exhibitions, including Une chambre à soi, Chateau La Coste, Puy-Sainte-Réparade, FR (2024); X COLLECTION 202: PORTRAIT OF A MAN, X Museum, Beijing, CN (2024); Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (2022); Go Figure!?, Sprüth Magers, Online Exhibition (2021). His work is held in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA.