Peggy's profile

Peggy Fox is a photographer, painter, and mixed media artist. She grew up outside Philadelphia and moved to Baltimore in 1962.

Combining her own photographic images and paint on worked aluminum, allowing the surroundings to reflect back into the work, her narrative also  reflects the dilemmas of being human and in this time.
She also combines and reworks her images in her computer to  make archival pigment prints.

Her mural for the Maryland Transit Authority, Lost In The Cosmos,, is a two hundred foot work in porcelain enamel on steel,  about travel from Baltimore into the Cosmos .It  the wall on the platform at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Retired from assignment  photography, She is now focused on a different sort of storytelling. 

Her education included Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and  MICA in Baltimore, and mostly being educated by her peers . She. was head of the Art Department at St Paul's School for Boys before leaving to become an independent photographer. Her camera has served in many ways; from commercial work, both advertising and editorial, with  black & white photography. A book of her photgraphs, with folklorist Ali Kahn , "Patapsco: life Along Maryland's Historic River Valley." was published by The Center For American Places.
"Dancing With Strangers", a book  of Baltimore street photography with poetry by Gary Blankenberg was an underground favorite.. Her documentary work and negatives are in the collection of the Library of Congress ,and at the University of Maryland Baltimore County Albin H Kuhn Library.

Her work is in the collections of  The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Mathew Polk and Amy Gould Collection and the Robert W Deutsch Foundation as well as private collections.

Peggy's Curated Collection

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