The terns and the guilty wanderer

The Terns and the Guilty Wanderer

Piece description from the artist

I love Japanese prints. This was a piece I made during an artist residency at the C-Scape Dune Shack in Provincetown, MA. The residency was three weeks in a dune shack with no electricity or running water. Once a week I would drag a plastic red snow sled over the sand and hike a mile and a half down the beach to the coast guard station at Race Point to fill my empty Water containers, and drag them back across the sand to the studio/shack. Half way through my journey I would have to cross through the nesting area for piping plovers and terns. It would always be a harrowing and desperate 300 yard sprint through the dive bombing birds…and I would intermittently need dive to the sand in a fetal position and cover my head as I took a "breather" to keep my lungs from bursting and to protect my head and body from being pecked as I made my way through with a rope around my waist attached to my plastic sled filled with a dozen full gallon jugs of water.

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About Rick Fox

Kittery, ME

Rick Fox lives in Kittery, Maine, and is represented by Gallery NAGA, Boston.

Recent exhibitions include: Gallery NAGA, Boston / Field Projects Gallery, NYC / Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh UK / CICA MUSEUM, Gyeonggi-do, Korea / Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire / Prince Street Gallery, NYC and the Grunewald Gallery of Art, Indiana University. Twice a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant (Montreal), Rick also received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and the William James Association to administer and teach a painting and drawing program at the Federal Prison, FMC Devens. During the summer of 2015 he participated in the Heliker-Lahotan Foundation painting residency on Cranberry Island, ME, and he has been invited to the PLAYA residency in Oregon for the month of February, 2018.
Rick has been teaching painting and drawing full-time at the University of New Hampshire since 2010.

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