In the past 25 years, Fodor’s paintings can be described as nature based non-objective abstractions diversely informed by his personal history and memory, the indelible marks of his travels, Zen Buddhism and divergent historical and contemporary art movements. Since late 2014 his paintings concern appropriating historic works of art, generally classical figurative sculpture and painting referencing mythic and religious themes. Drawn and painted translations of specific historic works of art function as an underpainting that the artist then disrupts, obscures and re-contextualizes; these foundation or anchor paintings, and their outdated mythologies, are then “storied forth” literally and conceptually. Existing in a current and relevant idiom, his paintings question dominant political structures and religious paradigms while they simultaneously celebrate and honor the continuum and persistence of a 30,000-year history of mark-making and painting. 

Fodor also pursues photography in a similar journey to painting; one that encompasses continual refinement and discovery. His photographic work concerns itself with finding a human “unseen presence” in the landscape, prehistoric ruins and abandoned, ruined or demolished architecture. He views his photographs as a record of singular moments, while the paintings are an accumulative archive of multiple moments. 

Fodor’s paintings are exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and he has received favorable reviews in Art News, Art in America and numerous regional publications. He was a recipient of the City of Santa Fe Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (2014) and his work is in multiple private, corporate and public collections; notably the Lannan Foundation Collection, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. His paintings have been included in solo and group exhibitions at the Laguna Art Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Lannan Foundation. Fodor’s photographs are in the collection of Palace of the Governors Photo Archives at the New Mexico History Museum and are the subject the publications: Chaco Canyon: wandering the past in the present, 2015, Apparatus: in a painting studio, 2014 and the forthcoming Bridge Breaking: a narrative on the 6th street viaduct demolition.

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