Judith Fox at FiftyCrows Gallery

Friends of FiftyCrows

You are invited Thurs­day, March 4th for an open­ing and book sign­ing with Judith Fox. We are excited to exhibit two bod­ies of work by Fox: “I Still Do: Lov­ing and Liv­ing with Alzheimer’s”, a pow­er­ful, poetic and uni­ver­sal por­trayal of aging, lov­ing, humor, mor­tal­ity and hope, also the sub­ject of a touch­ing pho­to­graphic mem­oir pub­lished by pow­er­House. We also present, “Sea of Dreams”, an abstract depic­tion of haunt­ing beauty that explores the pow­er­ful tur­bu­lence beneath the sur­face calm of the ocean. Seen together, these images offer both direct and metaphoric rep­re­sen­ta­tion of deep emo­tion and the resilience of the human spirit. Ms. Fox will be present and sign­ing her new book. Books avail­able for pur­chase at the gallery.

WHEN: Thurs­day, March 4th, 2010

TIME: 5:00 to 7:30 pm

WHERE: Fifty­Crows Gallery
49 Geary St, Suite 225
San Fran­cisco, CA 94108

I Still Do: Lov­ing and Liv­ing with Alzheimer’s

In I STILL DO, Fox enters her husband’s world with her cam­era as a way of cel­e­brat­ing, hon­or­ing, lov­ing and remem­ber­ing Ed as he leaves the con­scious world. Fox started this series when Ed was in his mid­dle 70’s — to her, still a vig­or­ous, hand­some and sen­su­ous man; also a man who has Alzheimer’s Dis­ease.  In pho­tograph­ing Ed, Fox was chal­lenged by a desire to pre­serve and pro­tect their pri­vacy while still expos­ing ele­ments of the dis­ease to pub­lic view in order to help des­tig­ma­tize Alzheimer’s Disease.

Sea of Dreams

The metaphor­i­cal images in SEA OF DREAMS explore the ten­sion between the painterly romance of the Ocean’s sur­face and the tur­moil beneath. The dynamic and pow­er­ful shifts of water, wind, sand and light are cap­tured from a sin­gle dis­tant and ele­vated van­tage point-they go to where the wind pushes and the moon pulls, marine life is trans­ported, the uni­verse is heated, and coast­lines are rearranged.  The pho­tographs reveal depths we may find uncom­fort­able. There are no hori­zons, no peo­ple, and no crash­ing waves; we’re not quite grounded. Although the ocean’s cur­rents fol­low spe­cific pat­terns, each instant is unique; each move­ment is eter­nal and momentary.

Judith Fox

Fox is a pho­tog­ra­pher, writer and a retired CEO. Fox started exhibit­ing her fine art pho­tog­ra­phy in 2002 and her award-winning pho­tographs have been in solo and group shows in Man­hat­tan, Los Ange­les and major cities in Vir­ginia. Her pho­tographs are in the per­ma­nent col­lec­tions of the Los Ange­les County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Museum of Pho­to­graphic Arts (MOPA) and the Harry Ran­som Cen­ter, as well as pri­vate and cor­po­rate col­lec­tions through­out the United States and Europe.

Her book, I Still Do … Lov­ing and Liv­ing With Alzheimer’s was pub­lished by pow­er­House Books and released in Octo­ber, 2009.

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