@wild_canary

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In The Studio

Biography

SKILLS AND OVERVIEW
Chris Cox @wild_canary is a 33 year old aesthetically self taught, fabrication trained, schizophrenically intuit, Large-scale and Edition Sculptor based in Rhode Island whose artwork first appeared publicly in 2012 as sculptural graffiti targeting the Ease Side of Providence,RI.
Utilizing traditional and self-developed techniques Chris Cox @wild_canary experiments with two dimensionally extruded silhouettes and modular design to create installations that unobtrusively but imposingly occupy a large volumetric footprint.
Creating what he calls “sculptural scriptures”, through visual metaphor and obscurely connected pop cultural reference in his language of objects Chris Cox @wild_canary explores conceptual hypotheses of the biological possibilities of interpersonal communication as it relates to consciousness and momentary interterconnection using the philosophical method of compound found truths, truths based on theoretical physics and his own perceived personal experiences and observations while pondering the question “what is man.”
Chris Cox @wild_canary creates strictly defined regulatory format constitutions for editions of his maquetted sculptural designs, dictating the scale, materials, finish, tools and techniques used in their fabrication as well as limiting their unit and release structure while also_ in the case of the artist-handmade 12 unit Origin Edition_ enacting the RVI [rapid value inflation] pricing sequence of compounded doubling.

Further experimenting with his abilities of artistic alchemy can be seen in Chris Cox @wild_canary #micromonoprints.
Painted with thin rubber stamps and stencils cut to his sculptural silhouettes in a mechanically and monotonously repetitive unpredictable process of controlled randomness Chris Cox @wild_canary’s #micromonoprints can best be described as abstract expressionist block prints.
Painted with acrylic paint on stonehenge paper utilizing this hand done but seemingly automated method of infinite painting generation, the largest #micromonoprints measure 22”x30” these large #macromonoprints are quite rare as most of Chris Cox @wild_canary’s #micromonoprint paintings measure just 2.5”x2.5” or less and are individually dimebagged as a commentary comparison of the art and drug markets.

RELATED EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Amaral Custom Fabrications, Rhode Island — FRP specialist
2012 - 2016
Fabrication, Restoration and Installation of large and small scale museum quality sculptures of blue chip contemporary masters on the likes of Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alexander Calder as well as sculptural publishing’s of designs by living contemporary artists.
Jamestown Distributors — Composite Technology Support Specialist and Sales Associate.
September 2016 - April 2018
Brainstorm new composite products for company brand.
Test new composite product.
Instruct and educate staff and clients on proper composite fabrication techniques and material technical specifications and best use practices.
Maintain return clients list including complete inventory of their composite purchases and projects.
EDUCATION
International Yacht Restoration School, Rhode Island — Advanced Composites
2010 - 2011 , Bristol, RI USA
Under the tutelage of carbon fiber fabrication pioneer, C-Class Catamaran and America’s Cup Lead Boatbuilder_ Henry Elliot, Chris Cox @wild_canary was trained in all aspects of basic and advanced fiberglass, carbon fiber, and Kevlar composite fabrication; receiving certifications in marine, automotive, and aerospace grade composite technologies under the authority of the American Composites Manufacturing Association.

Private Collections

3 paintings, an origin edition sculpture, and an original concept maquette in the private collection of the Tipping Family of Cambridge, MA USA.

Paintings in the Leadbeater collections in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Paintings and on sculpture in the Timothy McGovern Collection in Lower Manhattan, New York USA.

Paintings and jewelry in the collection of Kristen McGovern in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York USA.

Over 20 artworks in the private collection of Susan and Richard Clark of Wells, Maine USA.

Sculptures, paintings, and photography in the Wind Song home collection in Tiverton, RI USA.

Painting in the private collection of Ross Cohran in Bristol, RI USA

Painting in the private collection of Patrica Tipping of Dumfries, Scotland UK.

Painting the the collection of Hugh Bryden in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland UK.

13 paintings in the private collection of The Lherbier Family in Marseilles, France.

six 2.5"x2.5" black paper #micromonoprints paintings and one 22"x22" painting in the collection of The Catholic Church.

One of the 36 original, monochromatic, Whale Black #micromonoprints in the collection on file of the Ingleby Gallery at 33 Barony St. Edinburgh, Scotland UK

One Primary Tricolor 2.5"x2.5" #micromonoprint in the collection on file of Beacon Gallery in Cambridge, MA

Press

2017, POD Providence Installation by Chris Cox City of Providence, RI (USA), Art Reveal Magazine Blog

2017, Chris Cox Bristol, RI USA, Issue 28 of Art Reveal Magazine pages 18-23

2018, Art By Chris Cox, Blanket Sea Magazine

2018, Art in the Wild Wild Canary’s Chris Cox makes a big statement with public sculpture, Providence Monthly and The Bay Magazine

Exhibitions

Ambitiously focused on the creation of a legacy of large scale sculpture Chris Cox @wild_canary’s artwork first publicly appeared the summer of 2012 with his execution of sculptural street art campaign consisting the illegal clandestine installation of mid-scale sculpture in a series of sculptural graffiti attacks targeting the popularly crowded areas in and surrounding older artist Barnaby Evans’ Water Fire Night events in Providence, RI.
Coinciding with the 2012 mid-scale sculptural graffiti in the public domain of Providence, RI Chris Cox @wild_canary anonymously exhibited in The Alta Luna Gallery in Bristol, RI over months a series of small original maquettes left in black bags at the door of the gallery; the owner Jane Hackman unbagging the anonymous artworks and displaying them center gallery listing them NFS saving them and later, at the permanent closing of the gallery collected by the artist Chris Cox @wild_canary.
The summer of 2015 Chris Cox @wild_canary was awarded his first public commission of a large scale work from the city of Providence. On May 30th 2016 Chris Cox @wild_canary by this commission installed his 7’tall 12’diameter contemporary henge POD [People of Difference] #podpeopleofdifference where it remains to this day and is gradually becoming a landmark sculpture in the center of Gardner Jackson Park along the Providence River Boardwalk nearby the PVD Pedestrian Bridge at 365 South Water Street in the Lower East Side of Providence, Rhode Island.
Chris Cox @wild_canary was one of two, three dimensional artist selected by Fusion Arts of Palms Springs, CA for their April 15th 2017 - July 14th 2017 Juried Online Exhibition; showing the original maquettes for Chris Cox @wild_canary’s sculptural design’s Windy, River Crab, and Joodolph as well as the scale 12 fiberglass fabrication of the contemporary henge POD [People of Difference]
June of 2017 Chris Cox @wild_canary exhibited the artist proof of his handmade 12 unit Windy Origin Edition at the briefly opened NR Modern Gallery in Middletown, RI.
Again in June of 2017 Chris Cox @wild_canary exhibited The River Crab Origin Edition in The Rhode Island Art Leagues juried associate members exhibition held at Providence Picture Frame’s Red Gallery.
July 2017 - January 2018 four artworks were exhibited over the course of months at The Mint Gallery in Bristol, RI by Chris Cox @wild_canary artworks included were; The Windy Origin Edition AP, The River Crab Origin Edition AP, and both the positive and negative reliefs of The Why I Know Never To Forget The Wave Within Origin Edition AP.
In early December of 2017 Chris Cox @wild_canary struck Providence, RI again with his sculptural graffiti, this time the artist clandestinely installed his 5’6”tall 3’wide 6’long Scale Three Reindeer Arcade Edition AP inside the main interior corridor of America’s first indoor shopping mall The Providence Arcade. With the later cooperation of the mall’s owner, Evan Granof; Chris Cox @wild_canary’s Reindeer Arcade Edition AP continued to grace The Providence Arcade’s interior atrium for the remainder of the 2017 holiday season till the end of January 2018 and was reclaimed by the artist.
From May 3rd 2018 - June 30th 2018 Chris Cox @wild_canary showed both The River Crab Origin Edition AP and The POD Origin Edition in Watertown, MA as part of a group show held by Till’s Wave Gallery.
Also from May 31st 2018 - June 28th 2018 Chris Cox @wild_canary’s Reindeer Arcade Edition AP stood center stage at the Bristol Community College’s Grimshaw Gudewicz Gallery’s 5th Annual All Media juried show.
Chris Cox @wild_canary again used his Reindeer Arcade Edition for illegal public sculptural graffiti, this time on December 1st 2018 at the Bristol, Rhode Island’s Holiday Downtown Grand Illumination; an annual Main Street block party with near nine thousand revelors in attendance.
This past winter in December 2019 running through January 2020 Chris Cox @wild_canary was invited to share his Reindeer Arcade Edition AP in gallery setting as a guest artist in a Gallery Stable Artists show at The Coastal Contemporary Gallery owned by Shari Weschler and located at 491 Thames Street, Newport RI.
Later in the month of February 2020 Chris Cox @wild_canary participated in an invite only Outsider Artists group show again at The Coastal Contemporary in Newport, RI where Chris Cox @wild_canary unveiled his fiber glass composite scale 2 River Crab scalability prototype; publicly for the first time.
Notable Achievements and Recent History
In the spring of 2018 Chris Cox @wild_canary ran a kickstarter campaign successfully fundraising $6000 towards the fabrication of the sculptor’s latest large scale project the 11’tall 13’wide 17’long #wickedbigwindy.
As part of this month long fundraiser Chris Cox @wild_canary created near 450 uniquely photographic and caption advertisement type spreads posted to social media.
Current Projects
The first kickstarter fundraising for the project awarded in June of 2018, the exhibitional male plug of the scale 12 #wickedbigwindy was originally slated to be a four month single handed build unveiled on September 1st 2018 at the Flying Horse Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition on the Pingree School in North Hampton, Massachusetts.
Unfortunately due to general lack of single handed fabrication time, as well as illness incapacitating the artist into 2019, the project has been stalled in the fairing stages of the male plugs 4 modular sculptural components.
The plan going forward for Chris Cox @wild_canary’s #wickedbigwindy project is to complete the exhibitional male plugs of the four modularly sculptural components of the 11’tall 13’wide 17’long playfully abstract dog in his Tiverton,RI Large Scale Studio from which the artist Chris Cox @wild_canary will pull two piece female molds that he will use to then produce identical advanced fiberglass composite scale 12 #wickedbigwindy sculptures in a multicolored edition format.
The first of Chris Cox @wild_canary’s 11’tall 13’wide 17’long four piece modular advanced fiberglass composite #wickedbigwindy sculptures is planned to be unveiled the spring or summer of 2021.
The scale twelve #wickedbigwindy’s durable lightweight fiberglass fabrication and simply connected modular design enables the sculpture to be appropriate for both interior or exterior installation, the sculpture’s four modular components able to easily be individually carried through any standard single width door.

Planned for a timed 2021 release with the scale 12 #wickedbigwindy is a smaller scale #wetwithcolorwindy edition of the same design, the 22”tall 26”wide 34”long edition.
Chris Cox @wild_canary in his Bristol, RI Mid-scale studio is currently in the process of hand-sculpting the male plugs of the sculpture’s four modular components from which two piece female molds will be pulled enabling mass production of identically sculpted scale two #wetwithcolorwindy sculptures.
Initial release of the #wetwithcolorwindy edition is planned to be limited to 50 units created per each of the six primary colors [red orange yellow green blue and purple.] Later a limited run of an Ebony and Ivory Edition will be offered. Each of the smaller scale 2 #wetwithcolorwindy sculptures’ gelcoat finish polished to such a perfection they will seem wet with color.

In his second floor Bristol, RI small scale studio Chris Cox @wild_canary continues production of an increasing number of his sculptural designs in his strictly regulated hand made twelve unit Origin Edition Format including units 1-3 of the #windyoriginedition which were sold by pre-order.
In addition to his Origin Edition production, Chris Cox @wild_canary in the following month; will be exploring the possibilities of a new maquetting material and method in which he will be experimenting with the fully scalable, two step processes of revolutionarily moldless advanced composite forming and fabrication Chris Cox @wild_canary first self developed and proved for the recreatable creation of the solid fiberglass laminate shells of his #pvdrivercrab sculptures.

Currently renovating his second floor #micromonoprint painting studio Chris Cox @wild_canary is in the process of building for his studio a 26”x30” fifty painting drying rack out of pine boards _reclaimed shelves from the closure of the University of Rhode Island bookstore.
Once completed with the fabrication and installation of the hand made drying rack, along with his continued random generation of his averagely 2.5”x2.5” #micromonoprints Chris Cox @wild_canary will embark on the painting of a fifty unit original series of 22”x30” Windy #macromonoprints that are planned to release along with the unveiling of the #wickedbigwindy and #wetwithcolorwindy editions.