Marc Vaux (born 29 November 1932, Swindon) is a British artist who rose to prominence in the 1960s. His work was included in the seminal Situation exhibition of 1960 alongside Robyn Denny, William Turnbull and Bernard Cohen among others.[1] This exhibition was a direct reaction by British abstract artists to the recent exhibitions in London of the American Abstract Expressionists in particular the Tate's 1959 exhibition The New American Painting. Although originally headed for a career in Chemistry, Vaux eventually studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1957 to 1960 where he was awarded a Boise traveling scholarship which allowed him to travel in Italy, and later to work at the Jean Ponsa lithographic printing studio in Paris.
In 1986, after a long teaching career he was appointed Head of Painting at the Central/St Martins College of Art and Design in London where he stayed until he retired in 1989 to concentrate full-time on painting.
Vaux's work has variously been described as minimalist and constructivist although since his primary interest is in colour and light he has more in common with the American west coast artists than the New York minimalists.
Marc Vaux said: It [colour] is known to have a direct effect upon the central nervous system/human sensibility, arguably the most effective modifiers of human response, over sound and touch. It is dynamic - dependent on degree of colour, light, surrounding colours. Given the facts it is surprising it has taken so long to come to the position of recognising the effective power of colour alone – the endless potential of colour alone to communicate, affect and modify response.. it can be a pure visual experience equivalent to any other (experience). The nearest equivalent would be the sound of music. I see no reason why colour can't equate with melody and be as memorable. After all Albers wrote poems to equate with his paintings.[2]
A monograph Marc Vaux was written by Vaux's long term supporter Norbert Lynton and published by 21 Publishing in 2005 (ISBN 1872784313).
The Tate Gallery holds a good collection of Vaux's work from 1959 to the present day.[3]
Vaux's first commercial gallery exhibition was at the Grabowski Gallery in London with his then wife Tess Jaray. He was subsequently represented by the Axiom Gallery, Anderson O'Day and then the Redfern Gallery, since 1998 Marc Vaux has been represented by the London art dealer Bernard Jacobson and has had regular exhibitions there.
^"Full House: Paintings from 1964 by Marc Vaux". Abstract Critical. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
^Wiedel-Kaufmann, Ben (2011). Marc Vaux, New Paintings: Triptychs and Ovals. Bernard Jacobson Gallery.
^"Marc Vaux born 1932". TATE. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
MarcVaux (born 29 November 1932, Swindon) is a British artist who rose to prominence in the 1960s. His work was included in the seminal Situation exhibition...
officer John Vaux, Deputy Governor of Bombay in 1689 Laurence Vaux (Vose) (1519–1585), an English canon regular and a Catholic martyr MarcVaux (born 1932)...
Juan Villafuerte Keratza Vissulceva Oswaldo Viteri Maurice de Vlaminck MarcVaux Wolf Vostell Édouard Vuillard Andy Warhol Ilse Weber Tom Wesselmann Jan...
Kitaj (1932–2007) – born in the United States Euan Uglow (1932–2000) MarcVaux (born 1932) Ian Weatherhead (born 1932) Richard Allen (1933–1999) John...
(1932–2017) Moira Huntly (born 1932) Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010) MarcVaux (born 1932) Alexander Goudie (1933–2004) John Hoyland (1934–2011) Jeremy...
(1932–1998), multimedia artist Peter Voulkos (1924–2002), ceramicist, sculptor MarcVaux (born 1932), conceptual, painter, sculptor Kara Walker (born 1969), installation...
Gilbert and George, Barbara Hepworth, Barry Kay, William Pye, Peter Lanyon, MarcVaux, Albert Irvin, Maggi Hambling, Kenneth Martin, Sean Scully, Bridget Riley...
Bert Vaux (/vɔːks/; born November 19, 1968, Houston, Texas) teaches phonology and morphology at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he taught for...
himself, he deals with the scale and arrangement of works by Roger Ackling, MarcVaux and Cathy Wade, as well as his own. Butcher's attempts within his own...
Bernd Berner, Rolf Gunter Dienst, Klaus Jürgen-Fischer, Eduard Micus, MarcVaux (1966), Alexandre Istrati (1966, 1975), Karl Fred Dahmen (1966, 1969,...
Steele Peter Struycken Keith Sutton Suzan Swale Norman Toynton Alan Uglow MarcVaux Aubrey Williams Several of the gallery's exhibition catalogues from 1959...
in 1853. In 1857, landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition for the park with their "Greensward Plan". Construction...
Scott; Garellek, Marc (2015). "Coda glottalization in American English". In ICPhS. University of California, San Diego, p. 1. Vaux, Bert (2000_. "Flapping...
Ost-Battalion: Attached to 352.Inf.Div 14(PaK) Kompanie. At Hameau de Vaux - Behind Vaux-Le Buisson Grenadier-Regiment 736. Oberst Ludwig Krug Stab: Colleville-sur-Orne...
directed her first operette les contes d'Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann) at the Vaux le Vicomte castle, the castle which inspired king Louis XIV to build Versailles...
Father Deschamps acquired several pieces of land along the Yonne on the Vaux road, which later formed the Abbé Deschamps Stadium. Auxerre made its first...
formulate a phonological rule that accurately predicts flapping. Nevertheless, Vaux (2000) postulates that it applies to alveolar stops: after a sonorant other...
Archived from the original on November 27, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022. Vaux, Robert (February 19, 2023). "When Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Takes...
through the walls of barbed wire behind the German bunkers, pushed through Vaux and Graye-sur-Mer, and began to advance towards St. Croix and Banville. "C"...
Macroevolution". Evo Edu Outreach. 5 (4): 603–618. doi:10.1007/s12052-012-0457-3. Vaux, Felix; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2016). "Lineages, splits...
nobleman and politician named Henry Peter Brougham, First Baron Brougham and Vaux, who had played an important part in the abolition of the slave trade, travelled...
Global Information