FOXITO

Declan Morrell is an Irish artist and music publisher living in New York City’s Lower East Side for two decades and making art under the name of Foxito since 2015. Foxito started by making hand crafted socially engaged collages that emanated from his childhood love for graffiti, punk rock music and fanzine culture and the paper politics of cut and paste collage making. By mixing autobiographical elements with current politics, popular culture and surrealist techniques, Foxito brings us into alienating fairy tale tableaus that operate as alternative historical artifacts. 

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Irreverent and subversive, his collages and paintings address the myths and horrors of organized religion as a power driven cult and the performative nature of nationalism in American politics while submerging his characters in a surreal mise-en-scene set on nightmarish locations. As a subconscious response to the state violence against civilians in response to BLM movement, he also produced a series of collages conjuring the heroes and villains of his youth during the Irish Troubles.

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For the last 3 years Foxito’s painting practice has centered on galaxies, spirals, and celestial bodies, forms that mirror both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimate terrain of the human psyche. In 2024 he presented his new work in the solo exhibition Mysterium Tremendum curated by Ruth Somalo at the Mancuso Room Gallery of the Henry Street Settlement. For this exhibit he explored artificial intelligence, celestial bodies, and colonialism. Two of his artworks were purchased by the Woodward Gallery and have been on display at their Eldridge Street storefront.

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Horns and Tails is proud to represent Foxito, please contact us with enquiries about exhibitions or price list.