Terry Fox

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Terry Fox (born in Seattle, Washington 1943; died 2008 in Cologne, Germany) was an American video, conceptual, and performance artist. Fox was originally based in San Francisco, and later moved to Liege, Belgium. Fox was an important figure in post-minimal sculpture, performance, and video art. His most important works explored a sculptural experience with sound, and did a very important series of works de-coding the Chartres Labyrinth. He had two major exhibitions in Berkeley, one curated by Brenda Richardson in 1973, and one in 1985 organized around the body of works owned by the Berkeley Art Museum organized by Connie Lewallen. Represented by the San Francisco dealer Paule Anglim, he also exhibited periodically at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York City. ___________________________ Terry Fox was born in 1943 in Seattle. At the age of seventeen, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system. As Brenda Richardson wrote in the 1973 catalog for his solo exhibition at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, “Fox’s installations and performances describe, sometimes quite literally, the physical and emotional circumstances of illness, hospitalization, isolation, and the physiology of being alive, death, and spiritual transfiguration.” As a young artist, Fox was drawn to the ephemeral nature of performance, he said, because “the only people this art exists for are the people who are there, and that’s the only time the art exists.” After g

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