In Flux

Judith Fox’s photographs make us stop and contemplate … once noticed by Fox, these apparently decaying and almost absent images take us on a different journey, if we pay attention.  If, like her, we pause and look at the graphic urban theater of old advertisements, we are in a territory where we can dream other meanings never imagined by the original producers of these signs.

Fox aims at transparency, suggesting the agency of these images by introducing her own words amidst sequences of photographs; she proposes in her poetic stanzas clues for what the efficacy of these images might be for her.  The combination of spare lines of words and images of poignant beauty and decay offers solace and joy through vision and thought. 

Elisabeth Sussman, curator of photography at Whitney Museum of American Art