Calvin’s paintings have a lo-fi indie rock feel that is at once considered and yeet seemingly spontaneous. His subjects are bohemian types fitted out with great attention to detail in thrift store chic. They play guitar, kill time while waiting for a friend, drink beer and swim, haunt the artworld and paint in the studio and paint in the studio. The scenes are everyday but with an oddly engaging magic that does not decry their realism.
Calvin is perhaps more knowing than his primitive style lets on.
The little actions that occur in his images accumulate at the edge of a canvas. This is where the end-game of modernism was played out in painting and it is to there that Calvin returnes, though this time presumably without the baggage.
John Slyce, in the americans.new.art, Barbican Centre, London, 2001.

Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Corvi-Mora, London;
2002: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; Side 2, Tokyo; 2001: Corvi-Mora, London; 2000 Marc Foxx, Los Angeles.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Dear Painter, Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg; Youngstars, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna; The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes, Stazione Leopolda, Florence; The Great Drawing Show: 1550-2003 AD, Michael Kohn, Los Angeles; Ishtar, Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, USA; Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art, Art Museum, Seattle; 2002: Dear Painter, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle, Vienna; Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London, Royal Academy, London; Collectors Program. Sammlung Köhn, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna; 2001: the americans.new.art, Barbican Centre, London; The Devil Is In The Details, Allston Skirt, Boston; 2000: Collector's Choice, Exit Art, New York.