POLLY FAXON, SELECTED PAINTINGS, 2005-2009
Posthumous Online Retrospective and Memorial Exhibition
Polly Faxon (Mary Elizabeth Faxon), 1951 - 2010

    Polly Faxon was self-taught as a painter and illustrator, beginning serious study at an early age in Boston. From 1965 to 1974, Polly had private lessons in painting and drawing with various fine artists and private tutors. Polly moved to New York City when she was eighteen years old, and immediately began taking drawing and painting courses at the Art Students League of New York, which included anatomy drawing and painting, figurative drawing and painting, and creative drawing and painting.

    Over time, Polly began to develop a uniquely personal aesthetic, which evolved out of a strong desire to continuously experiment, to question, to draw and paint, to explore and imagine, and especially to challenge herself.  Her desire to explore the surfaces of worlds led her to create work that resonated poetically, and would in turn lead her to express complex spiritual interpretations of the world around her; she filtered these into abstract expressionist trompe l’oeils – portraits and landscapes – with subjects that she felt mattered and moved her. There is great passion, dimension, and emotion in Polly’s work, where color, texture, and line are used with expressive precision to strike at the essence of her subject matter, and at the heart of the viewer.

    Polly often said that this was how she needed to live. She wrote, “I can live, relive and even alter my life’s experience through the process of painting, and I want the viewer of my work to pick through these fragments and connect the dots of this process with their own emotional reaction to it. I’m always striving for a deeper dialogue with both myself and with the viewer, of unspoken feelings; hopefully a transformative conversation that would last and be remembered – like finding an old diary in the attic, deteriorated by time, but made even more curious by the abstractions of time, by its rainbows of ink stains, and smeared memories.”

Marc D’avegan Rubin

From 5/22/20: Thank you so much Joe, I am very grateful that you contacted me to consider a solo show for Polly and her work, and provided the opportunity to exhibit Polly's work at Palette Online ArtSpace for a three week memorial exhibit. I know that Polly, who always admired you, your work, and your art advocacy so much, would have been incredibly honored and elated, as I am, as everyone who appreciates and enjoys her work hopefully is too. It was a beautiful show, and I'm really glad we can visit anytime to see the memorial show in an accessible folder at the site. My very best regards, Joe, I'm looking forward to all the upcoming shows you will be featuring at www.palettegallery.net.

Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition
 Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition
 Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition Oil and acrylic on canvas
 Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition Oil and watercolor on canvas
 Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition Oil on canvas
 Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition Oil on canvas
 Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition Oil on canvas
 Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition Oil on canvas
 Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition Oil on canvas
 Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition Oil on canvas
 Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition Oil and acrylic on canvas
 Polly Faxon: Memorial Online Exhibition Oil and watercolor on board