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Ollie Cox

About the Artist

Ollie Cox in his home. 2009
Ollie Cox in his home. 2009

Born in 1948 to one of the few African American families in Abingdon, Virginia, Ollie Cox got an education and got out of town. After graduating from Johnson C. Smith College in Durham, NC he worked in a series of “corporate jobs”, which took him to the west coast.

But family medical issues called him back to Abingdon in about 2000. He remained alienated by the town of his birth, but hanging out with younger ‘bohemian’ artists inspired him to take refuge in art. Working on recycled automobile panels, radiators, window shades, and discarded stage-sets, he painted his personal vision of a world somewhere between San Francisco and the cosmos.

In 2007 Ollie Cox's work was featured in the exhibit, "Inside the Outside", at the William King Regional Arts Center in Abingdon, Va. (April 20 - June 17, 2007). Exhibit curator Roann Barris wrote: “Ollie's work is a riotous explosion, an outburst of color, paint, and pattern”.  In the spring of 2011 Ollie Cox returned to the west coast to live.
We were sad to learn recently that Ollie passed away in Santa Fe in 2017.

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Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia)
SKU: OCX-1119

Oil paint on automobile radiator.
(18" x 32"), 2008

"Judy and I knew Ollie's house as soon as we saw it. The front had a scattering of junk, and the enclosed back yard was dense with every kind of trash imaginable--old road signs, pieces of wood, metal from cars, unrecognizable stuff. But inside was mind boggling. When he showed us around, every room was cluttered with his art work. It was screwed to walls, lying on beds, leaning against and on top of the pool table, in the kitchen, bathroom, anywhere you could put it. He had painted on discarded Hallmark card racks, the glass door of a commercial washing machine, odd pieces of wood and much more.

''When I moved back to Abingdon, I discovered that there were a lot of objects,' he explained, 'wood, metal, and all kinds of trash just laying around. And some of it I thought was pretty cool. I tried to figure out what I would try to do with this stuff cause I hate to see it go to the junk yard. When I'm riding around it could take 20 hours to get home because every 10 seconds I'm stopping to pick something up.'

'Now that radiator,' he told me years later, after he left Abingdon, 'that's a rare piece. I only painted 5 or 6 radiators. That one I painted a landscape on one side and a gas station on the other."

From an unpublished manuscript by Len Davidson

$1800

Cityscape
SKU: OCX-1103

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia),
Oil and acrylic on recycled wood and metal
(31 1/2" x 47 1/4"), 2002

$1800

Untitled (Six Red Figures)
SKU: OCX-1104

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia),
Oil on recycled steel
(18" x 47"), 2001

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Cosmic Shadowboxing
SKU: OCX-1107

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia),
Oil on wood.
(11 1/2" x 48 1/2" x 1"), 2002

$900

Cosmic Landing
SKU: OCX-1101

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia),
Oil and acrylic on wood
(25" x 14"), 2002

$400

Untitled (Asteroid at the Beach)
SKU: OCX-1102

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia),
Oil on plywood
(17 3/4" x 17 3/4"), c.2005

$350

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia)
SKU: OCX-1109

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia),
Acrylic on cardboard
(13" x 20"), 2001

$350

Untitled (Headdress 2) - Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia)
SKU: OCX-1110

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia),
Acrylic on cardboard.  Framed.
(13 1/4" x 11"), 2001

$350

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia)
SKU: OCX-1114

Oil on plywood
(11 1/2" x 8"), 2002

$225

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia)
SKU: OCX-1108

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia),
Acrylic on cardboard
(16" x 34"), 2001

$225

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia)
SKU: OCX-1117

Oil on plywood
(6 1/2" x 6"), 2002

$175

Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia)
SKU: OCO-10

(Abingdon, Virginia),
Acrylic and oil on plywood
(23 1/2" x 6 1/4"), 2002

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Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia)
SKU: OCO-11

Oil on plastic
(11" x 23 1/2"), 2002

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Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia)
SKU: OCO-12

Oil on plywood
(24 1/2" x 48"), 2002

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Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia)
SKU: OCO-13

Oil on wood slab
(26 1/2" x 10 1/4"), 2006

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Ollie Cox (Abingdon, Virginia)

Oil and acrylic on recycled plywood panel
(62" x 24"), 2002

"Every painting in the house was out in the open, but we came to one sort of secret room that had a closed door. 'I guess you should see this, too,' he offered, not wanting to offend my wife. 'We're all adults.' He opened the door of this mystery space, yet another room jammed with paintings, but barely bigger than a closet.

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