Clark V. Fox

Clark V. Fox (born Michael Vinson Clark, November 20, 1946) is an American modernist painter. Clark produced color field paintings while associated with the Washington Color School in the late sixties and simultaneously made figurative pop art. Over the course of his career Clark consciously alternated between and synthesized these two schools while moving many times between Washington D.C. and New York City. Clark's association with the Washington Color School is reflected in the fact that he was called upon, as a recent graduate of the Corcoran School of Art, to reproduce 50 copies of "Popsicle" by Gene Davis, a leading light of the school, for a highly publicized giveaway in 1969. Clark is also known for his minimalist architecture paintings, which are held in numerous major museums and private collections, and for his pop representations of Gilbert Stuart’s iconic portrait of George Washington. Beginning in the seventies, Clark used Mr. Peanut as a vehicle for ironically commenting on consumerist culture and brand-name icons, drawing on the analyses of the Situationist International. "From a pure art standpoint, Clark Fox's monumental painting 'Das Kapital,' with its reverbrating shadows of green, yellow and blue, is the show's masterpiece," a critic said with regard to the Situationist-inspired "Corpocracy" exhibit in 2016 at Houston's Station Museum of Contemporary Art.