Langley Fox
Partners in Crime, 2020
Ballpoint pen on paper
5 x 7 in
Langley Fox’s photorealistic painting style focuses mainly on exposing the ignored corners of places and people. By depicting melancholic and dark details of life in a captivating and moving way, Fox presents a cinematic nostalgia for somewhere and something insignificant. Fox uses light to dictate experience and to portray mystery and interest in the mundane and dilapidated. Always seeking to emulate poignant encounters, Fox often thinks about her paintings as comparable to scores being attached to moving images, adding an emotional effect to an otherwise silent moment.
Fox (b. 1989 Sun Valley, ID) earned her BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA and attended Parsons School of Design in New York, NY. After years of collaborative commissioned work for fashion houses and magazines where she was mostly creating photorealistic pen and pencil illustrations, Fox shifted to spending more time with oil paints and creating for gallery shows. Fox and her work have been featured in numerous publications including W Magazine, Flaunt, The Bare Magazine, LA Mag, Coveteur, Glamour, Elle, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar. Fox lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.