Marc Vaux
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. 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.
Marc Vaux
- Name
- Marc Vaux
- Born
- 29 November 1932
- Birthplace
- Swindon, Wiltshire, England
- Field
- Painting, Printmaking
- Training
- Slade School of Fine Art, 1957-1960
- Movement
- Abstract Art
- Nationality
- United Kingdom.
- Occupation
- painter, photographer and artist.
- Fields
- painting.
- Movements
- abstract art.
- Education
- Slade School of Fine Art.
- Languages
- English.
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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. 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.
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Biography
Biography
Vaux worked across painter, photographer and artist. This article rests on 10 catalogued photographs, 1 published texts and 51 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Marc Vaux studied at Slade School of Fine Art. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by Marc Vaux is recorded in the collections of Tate, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre and British Library.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Marc Vaux • Born — 29 November 1932 • Birthplace — Swindon, Wiltshire, England • Field — Painting, Printmaking • Training — Slade School of Fine Art, 1957-1960 • Movement — Abstract Art
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
• Year — Selected Solo Exhibitions — Gallery/Museum • 2014 — Marc Vaux: New Ovals, 2 may – 31 May 2014 — Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London • 2012 — Full House: Paintings from 1964 — Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London • 2011 — Featured Works — Tate Britain • 1998, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2010 — Solo Shows — Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London • 1994, 1996 — Featured Works — Redfern Gallery, London • 1993 — Works on Paper from the Sixties — Redfern Gallery, London • 1991 — Featured Works — Anderson O’Day Gallery, London • 1990 — Featured Works — Centre for International Contemporary Art, New York • 1989 — Featured Works — Park Gallery, College of St Paul and St Mary, Cheltenham • 1973 — Featured Works (Two-person show with Tess Jaray) — Whitechapel Art Gallery, London • 1969 — Featured Works — Galerie Wilbrand, Cologne, Germany • 1970 — Featured Works — Axiom Gallery, London • 1967 — Featured Works — Axiom Gallery, London • 1965 — Featured Works — Hamilton Galleries, London • 1963 — Featured Works (Two-person show with Tess Jaray) — Grabowski Gallery, London • Year — Selected Group Exhibitions — Gallery/Museum • 2017 — Gallery Artists — Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London • 2013 — Moving - Norman Foster On Art — Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France • 2012 — Summer Group Show' — Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London • 2012 — Coherent Surface, Radiant Light — Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York • 2011 — How to carry the World On One's Back? — Deichtorhallen, Hamburg • 2011 — How to carry the World On One's Back? — Deichtorhallen, Hamburg • 2011 — Double Exhibition — Broadbent, London • 2011 — Gallery Group Show — Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London • 2010 — 'Exhibitions Round-up: lifting the heart — Flowers Gallery, London • 2009 — The Louvre during the War - Photographs 1938 - 1947' — Musée du Louvre, Paris • 2006 — Definite Article — Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco • 2006 — Caro, Denny, Smith and Vaux, The ‘60s — Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London • 2005 — 'Paintings 1959 – 2005 — Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London • 2005 — Definite Article — Vertigo Gallery, London • 2004 — White — 120 Gallery, London • 2004 — The Discerning Eye — Mall Galleries, London • 2003 — London Group — Gallery 27, London • 2003 — Jerwood Prize Exhibition — Jerwood Space, London • 2002 — 'Space Vehicles — McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas • 1998 — The Discerning Eye — Mall Galleries, London • 1997 — Light — Mixed exhibition, Richard Salmon Gallery • 1997 — Light — Mixed exhibition, Spacex Gallery, Exeter • 1996 — Drawings — Spring Mixed Exhibition, Redfern Gallery • 1996 — Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition — Cheltenham • 1996 — British Abstract Art — Drawings, Flowers East, London • 1994 — London Group — Barbican Gallery, London • 1994 — British Abstract Art — Flowers East, London • 1994 — Tensions — Curwen Gallery, London • 1993 — Mixed Show — Redfern Gallery, London • 1993 — The Sixties Scene in London — Barbican Gallery, London • 1993 — Mixed Spring Show — Redfern Gallery, London • 1993 — London Group — Barbican Gallery, London • 1992 — Concentrazione — Torino, Italy • 1992 — Mixed Summer Show — Redfern Gallery, London • 1991 — Small is Beautiful — Abstract, Flowers East, London • 1989 — London Group — Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art, London • 1989 — The Exhibition of New Art in East London — Whitechapel Art Gallery, London • 1988 — London Group — Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art, London • 1985 — John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 14 — Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool • 1985 — Thirty London Painters — Royal Academy, London • 1984 — London Group — Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art, London • 1981 — Contemporary Artists in Camden — Camden Arts Centre, London • 1979 — The Whitechapel Summer Show ’79 — Whitechapel Art Gallery, London • 1976 — Deck of Cards — JPL Fine Art, London • 1976 — AIR Exhibition 6 — AIR Gallery, London • 1975 — Mai Külföldt Graphika Magyar Gyüjtemenyekben I — Egyetem Galélia, Debrecen, Hungary • 1974-5 — 'Artistas Graphicos Britanicos de la Década del 60/Gravures de Artistas Britanicos na Década dos 60 — British Council touring exhibition in South America • 1974 — British Painting ‘74 — Hayward Gallery, London • 1974 — Künstler Machen Gahnen für Rottweil — Stadtfest Rottwed 74, Federal Republic of Germany • 1972 — Grabados Ingleses Contemporaneous 60-70 — Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneous, Madrid (British Council touring exhibition) • 1970 — 3rd Salon International de Galeries Pilotes: Artistes et Découvreurs de Notre Temps — Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris • 1970 — The Captain Cook Bicentenary: Colour and Structure - Recent British and Australian Paintings — Farmers Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, Australia • 1970 — Some Recent Art in Britain — Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England • 1969 — Konzeptionelle Bilder — Westfälisher Kunsteverein, Münster, Federal Republic of Germany • 1969 — Recent British Prints — IBM Gallery, New York • 1969 — Fine Art for Industry — RCA Gallery, London • 1969 — Contemporary British Graphics — British Council touring exhibition in the US • 1968 — 100th Exhibition — Grabowski Gallery, London • 1968 — British Painting: Collection of Leicestershire Education Authority — Whitechapel Art Gallery, London • 1968 — Grabados de Artistas Britanicos Nuevas Tendencias 1968 — Galeria de Exposiciones Temporales, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City • 1968 — Twenty-five Camden Artists — Central Library, Swiss Cottage, London • 1967 — The Ninth International Art Exhibition of Japan — the Mainighi Newspaper and the Japan International Art Promotion Association, Tokyo • 1967 — Brittiska Gouacher och Färggragik — Sundsvalls Konstförening Sundsvall, Sweden VI John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool • 1967 — Transatlantic Graphics — Camden Arts Centre, London • 1967 — Six Artists: Denny, Hoyland, Vaux, Lancaster, Boshier, Evans — Victoria and Albert Museum, London • 1967 — Society of Scottish Artists 73rd Exhibition of Painting Sculpture, Drawings, Applied Art and Architecture — Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland • 1967 — Junge Engländer — Galerie Heide Hildebrand, Klangenfurt, Austria • 1967 — Graphick Junger Engländer — Glaerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland • 1967 — Spring Exhibition 1967 — Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford • 1966 — London Under Forty — Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy • 1966 — Vormen van de Kleur — Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Württembergischer Kunstvetein, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany; and Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland • 1966 — Form and Image — Leeds Institute Gallery, Leeds, England • 1966 — Spring Exhibition 1966 — Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford • 1966 — Hamilton Artists — Hamilton Galleries, London • 1965-68 — Recent Prints by Some British Painters and Sculptors — British Council touring exhibition in India • 1965 — John Moores Liverpool Exhibition — Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool • 1965 — Syn — Galerie Vaier, Mainz and Galerie Margarete Lauter, Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany • 1965 — Premio Internazionale Biella Per l’Incisione — Circolo degli Artisti di Biella, Biella, Italy • 1965 — Spring Exhibition 1965 — Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford • 1965 — Second Commonwealth Biennial of Abstract Art — Commonwealth Institute, London • 1964 — About Round: London Galleries — Leeds University, Leeds, England • 1964 — Spring Exhibition 1964 — Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford • 1963 — V Mednarodna Graficna Rozstava/V Exposition Internationale de Gravure — Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia • 1962-3 — Situation: An Exhibition of Recent British Abstract Art — British Arts Council touring exhibition in England • 1962 — 9 Painters from England — Galleria Trastevere, Rome • 1961 — Neu Malerei in England — Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany • 1961 — 2nd Biennale de Paris — Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris • 1961 — New London Situation: And Exhibition of British Abstract Art — New London Gallery, London • 1960 — London Group — R.B.A. Galleries, London • 1960 — Situation: British Abstract Art — R.B.A. Galleries, London • 1959-60 — Young Contemporaries — R.B.A. Galleries, London
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1932
Marc Vaux was born on 29 November 1932.
Context
Primary material
Context
The circumstances in which Marc Vaux stands. Established in Library of Congress under n92095077. Established in RKDartists under 79544. Established in FAST under 310145. Associated with abstract art. Recognition and collections.
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Marc Vaux”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q6755936: Marc Vaux
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