Marc Vaux (born 29 November 1932, Swindon) is a British artiste who rose to beat in the 1960s. His take action was included in the seminal Situation exhibition of 1960 next door to Robyn Denny, William Turnbull and Bernard Cohen along with others. This exhibition was a direct tribute 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 superior to pretend 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 upon painting.
Vaux’s function has variously been described as minimalist and constructivist although previously his primary inclusion is in colour and lively he has more in common in the same way as the American west coast artists than the New York minimalists.
Marc Vaux said: It is known to have a dispatch effect on the central nervous system/human sensibility, arguably the most working modifiers of human response, over sealed and touch. It is dynamic – dependent on degree of colour, light, surrounding colours. Given the facts it is surprising it has taken appropriately long to comply the position of recognising the effective talent of colour alone – the endless potential of colour alone to communicate, affect and correct response.. it can be a resolution visual experience equivalent to any other (experience). The nearest equivalent would be the strong of music. I see no explanation why colour can’t equate similar to melody and be as memorable. After whatever Albers wrote poems to equate bearing in mind his paintings.
A monograph Marc Vaux was written by Vaux’s long term fanatic Norbert Lynton and published by 21 Publishing in 2005 (ISBN 1872784313).
The Tate Gallery holds a good collection of Vaux’s be active from 1959 to the present day.
Vaux’s first poster gallery exhibition was at the Grabowski Gallery in London as soon as his then wife Tess Jaray. He was like 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.
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