Fox Hysen builds images through an intuitive process of layering, revision, and transformation. Forms develop through relationships between color, line, shape, rhythm, and space, often hovering between landscape, figure, architecture, and abstraction.

Light and dark are central to the paintings, creating shifting relationships between visibility and obscurity, depth and surface, presence and absence. Forms emerge and recede within these contrasts, producing a sense of movement. The paintings create spaces that are simultaneously physical and imagined.

The work is informed by embodied experience, memory, imagination and perceptual depth. Hysen is interested in the painting as an independent object: something constructed through deliberate choices but capable of exceeding them. Meaning develops through the encounter between the painting and the viewer, where recognition, association, and imagination remain in flux.

Fox Hysen lives and works between Connecticut and New York and grew up in the Bay Area. She is currently an adjunct critic in the Yale School of Painting and Printmaking in New Haven, CT and runs an online program called The International School of Painting and Self-Regard. ISPSR is a graduate-level painting program built around group critique, seminar, and one-on-one mentorship — for artists who want sustained, serious engagement with their work and each other's. Apply here. She has had exhibitions at Ailsa, Below Grand and Soloway Galleries in New York and Gallery 16 and Et al. in San Francisco.