Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to present Beyond Obedience, a major solo exhibition surveying nearly six decades of work by Clark V. Fox (born 1946) at the gallery’s 251 W 19th Street location in Chelsea. Clark Fox is an American artist whose singular practice defies conventional distinctions between abstraction, Pop art, political painting, and cultural critique. Clark Fox is an artist’s artist if there ever was one. At almost 80, his name is known and admired among an interesting group of his elders and peers. As a very young painter, he both emulated and influenced Washington D.C. artists such as Thomas Downing, Gene Davis, Jacob Kainen, and Sam Gilliam. They influenced Clark’s early incarnation as a Washington Color School painter. Living his entire life between D.C. and New York, by 1970 the artist had moved from abstract to representational painting. His important series of “architectural” paintings began with his inspiration fr