Contents for July 24, 2023
CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post):
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Weekly Spotlight: Ron Littke and Franklin Furnace’s SEQ ART KIDS education program now online at RiverReporter.com
1. GOODW.Y.N, FF Alumn, now online at In Actin Ireland
2. Shaun Leonardo, FF Alumn, launches new website shaunleonardo.com
3. Beatrice Glow, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Jaye Rhee, FF Alumns, at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, thru Aug. 13
4. Susan Ensley, FF Alumn, receives 2023 Puffin Annual Artist Grant
5. Andres Serrano, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
6. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Amant, Brooklyn, Aug. 11
7. Yoko Ono, John Cage, La Monte Young, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
8. Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, seeks support
9. Arturo Lindsay, FF Alumn, in BronzeLens Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, Aug. 23-27, and more
10. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK, thru Spring 2024
11. Stephanie Brody-Lederman, FF Alumn, at Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY, July 28, and more
12. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, at Long Play Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA, thru Sept. 29
13. Jane Goldberg, FF Alumn, now online at JazzJournalists.org
14. Brendan Fernades, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
15. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, in new publication
16. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, now online at LATimes.com
17. Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XE73wfym4E
18. Antoinette LaFarge, FF Alumn, at Irvine City Hall, CA, opening Aug. 10 and more
19. Vernon Fisher, FF Alumn, recent news
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Weekly Spotlight: Ron Littke and Franklin Furnace’s SEQ ART KIDS education program now online at RiverReporter.com
Please visit this link:
https://riverreporter.com/stories/sullivan-west-kids-become-filmmakers,103664
Thank you.
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1. GOODW.Y.N, FF Alumn, now online at In Actin Ireland
I wanted to send you the link to my newest article on the blog site for In Action Ireland! Seems like word about my work is getting around!
https://inaction.ie/2023/07/17/erasure-the-invisibility-of-blackness/
GOODW.Y.N
Thank you.
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2. Shaun Leonardo, FF Alumn, launches new website shaunleonardo.com
Please visit this site:
https://shaunleonardo.com/?view-type=recent
Thank you.
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3. Beatrice Glow, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Jaye Rhee, FF Alumns, at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, thru Aug. 13
Gathering
33 asianish artists exhibit
Curated by Cecile Chong and Sophia Ma
thru August 13
This extensive group exhibition features work by 33 members of Asianish, a community of artists and art professionals of varying Asian identities, formed in 2018. They continue to gather around conversation, art, and food to share about code-switching in art contexts and the need for belonging in a country they call home.
The work on view – paintings, drawings, sculpture, and video work – represents the current diversity in art-making and its process.
Participating artists:
Kate Bae, Mimi Bai, SiSi Chen, Vivian Chiu, Priyanka Dasgupta & Chad Marshall, Caroline Garcia, Beatrice Glow, Kira Nam Greene, Gyun Hur, Evgenia Kim, Christina Yuna Ko, Alison Kuo, Julia Kwon, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Adelle Lin Yingxi, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, zavé martohardjono, J Dellecave, Julia C Liu & Aviva Jaye, Chanel Matsunami Govreau, Lulu Meng, Tomo Mori, Natalia Nakazawa, Harley Ngai Grieco, Alex Paik, Maia Cruz Palileo, Risa Puno, Naomi Kawanishi Reis, Jaye Rhee, Jiwon Rhie, Annesofie Sandal, Amy Lee Sanford, and Seldon Yuan.
Sat. Jul 29, 5pm – Panel Discussion, moderated by Gabriel de Guzman
Sun. Aug 13, 6 – 8pm – Closing Potluck
Curator bios:
Cecile Chong is a visual artist. She was born in Ecuador to Chinese parents and grew up in Quito and Macau. Her public art installation EL DORADO – The New Forty Niners was installed in each of the five boroughs of New York City (2017-2022). Solo exhibitions include Kates-Ferri Projects, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, Selenas Mountain, ICFAC at Pinta Miami, Smack Mellon, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, BRIC, and more. Chong’s work is in the collections of El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Chinese in America, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Center for Book Arts, Bryn Mawr Hospital, and Citibank Art Advisory. She has curated exhibitions at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, the Dedalus Foundation, and Emerson Gallery Berlin, Germany.
Sophia Ma is an independent curator and writer. Ma completed her master’s in art history and curatorial studies from Hunter College, CUNY, Fall 2020. Her thesis was on the relationship between the work and spiritual practices of the abstract painter Bernice Lee Bing (1936-1998). Ma also curated for Project Art Distribution’s five-year traveling retrospective exhibition of 200 artists and 400 artworks from Walter Elwood Museum to St. John’s University’s Yeh Art Gallery. Her solo projects include the curation of Alison Kuo’s “We Will Meet Again” at Think!Chinatown. Ma has written for multiple online art publications, including The Brooklyn Rail, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, Art Spiel, Arte Fuse, and White Hot Magazine.
A concurrent exhibition with the work by Asianish members is taking place at Tiger Strikes Astroid TSA-NY, June 24-July 30, 2023: Participating artists: Heejung Cho, Rachelle Dang, Gi (Ginny) Huo, Sara Jimenez, Melissa Joseph, Kyoung eun Kang, Ae Yun Kim, zavé martohardjono, Kristel Baldoz, & Andrew Suseno, Sa’dia Rehman, Pauline Shaw, Winnie Sidharta Ambron, Maria Stabio, and Jia Sung.
Gallery hours:
Thursday – Sunday, 1 – 6pm, or by appointment. Please email hanne@fivemyles.org, or call 718-783-4438.
Directions:
Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.
Acknowledgments:
FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, the Perlemeter Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Joseph Robert Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
Thank you.
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4. Susan Ensley, FF Alumn, receives 2023 Puffin Annual Artist Grant
Congratulations to Susan Ensley, FF Alumn, who has been awarded a 2023 Puffin Annual Artist Grant for “All Tomorrows Babies Are Crying,” a mobile sound event.
Thank you.
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5. Andres Serrano, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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6. Justin Allen, FF Alumn, at Amant, Brooklyn, Aug. 11
Hello!
I’m excited to perform in Amant’s Heat Waves series, activating Ash Arder’s Whoop House, a solar-powered sculpture and sound amplification hub. Would love to see you there!
Please visit this link for info and registration: https://www.amant.org/programs/89-justin-allen-johann-diedrick
Friday, August 11
7pm
Amant
315 Maujer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Thank you.
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7. Yoko Ono, John Cage, La Monte Young, FF Alumns, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
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8. Carlos Martiel, FF Alumn, seeks support
Hola querides,
My name is Carlos Martiel. I am a visual artist and I need your help. For several months, I have been dealing with severe cervical issues that have been affecting my nerve system causing me weakness and extreme pain. Weeks ago, my symptoms got worse so I had to make the decision of putting all of my life’s projects on hold to undergo cervical surgery. After seven days at the hospital, I am in the middle of a process of a recovery that will take me 4-6 weeks with very limited mobility. My sole means of income is using my body, so I will need your help as I cover my medical and living expenses for the next couple of months until I am ready to start my work again as a performance artist. Thank you for your help and understanding. Gracias.
To make your donations please click on the GoFundMe link above.
Thank you.
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9. Arturo Lindsay, FF Alumn, in BronzeLens Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, Aug. 23-27, and more
Dear familia, patrons, fellow artists, and friends,
Thanks to you, we did it. We’ve arrived!
Arte Congo… artists journey on the congo coast of panamá has been accepted into the 2023 BronzeLens Film Festival!
Our journey began on the 27th of February 2020 in the home of Dr. Sheila Walker in Washington, DC. I was in DC to attend a Lifetime Recognition Award event for my dear friend and colleague Henry Drewal. Over late-night drinks and great conversation, Sheila told me that she thought my reflections on the history, art, and aesthetics of arte Congo would reach a larger and more diverse audience as a documentary film rather than as a scholarly treatise. She went onto say that I was in the best position to provide such an “insider’s” account.
Two and a half years later our film will premiere at the prestigious BronzeLens Film Festival. Although headquartered in Atlanta, BronzeLens is an international festival with submissions this year from over 60 countries. How fitting for our film – whose title suggests that we are many creatives traveling together with a common objective – to share a new Afrocentric Panamanian contemporary art experience with the world.
The 14th annual BronzeLens Film Festival will take place August 23 – 27 in Atlanta and virtually after August 28. They haven’t yet published the schedule so I’m not able to tell you when and where the film will be screened, but please check their website beginning August 1 at https://bronzelens.eventive.org/welcome
Lastly, despite our previous fundraising efforts and very frugal spending practices, we are approximately $10K underfunded. I plan to wait until after the film’s premiere to do a final audit. As much as I hate to say this, we may have to launch another GoFundMe campaign.
Hope to see you at the festival!
Hasta pronto,
Arturo Lindsay
Thank you.
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10. Claire Jeanine Satin, FF Alumn, at Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK, thru Spring 2024
Alphabets Alive exhibition at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, Oxford, UK, opening July 15, 2023 through Spring 2024.
Upon conclusion of the exhibition all works (including mine) will be acquired by the Bodleian Library into their collection.
It is an honor to be included in this esteemed collection. https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/alphabets-alive#:~:text=Alphabets%20Alive!%20brings%20the%20magic,%2C%20colours%2C%20materials%20and%20languages
Thank you.
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11. Stephanie Brody-Lederman, FF Alumn, at Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY, July 28, and more
Stephanie Brody-Lederman in French publication and also chosen as artist for the poster for the Springs Invitational.
The paintings of Stephanie Brody-Lederman have been included in the French publication “Trouble” a Paris, France journal. This literary compilation of art and text is published and edited by Matthew Rose. This book/journal is devoted to work dealing with dogs and cats. it has been published simultaneously, with inclusion of images from the exhibition “Comme Chen et Chat” at Galerie Jean-Louis Cleret in Guingamps, Brittany, France. Brody-Lederman is a part of this exhibition.
Brody-Lederman has also been chosen by Karyn Mannix, the curator of The Springs Invitational (East Hamptom) to have her artwork as the poster for the exhibition. This exhibition is rooted in the history of the abstract expressionists of the area, who began the “invitational“ exhibitions in the last century. The posters are iconic and Pollock, De Kooning, et al have been part of the history of these shows. The exhibition opening is July 28th at Ashawagh Hall in the Springs, East Hampton.
Thank you.
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12. Cyrilla Mozenter, FF Member, at Long Play Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA, thru Sept. 29
Afloat Afield
Janelle Borsberry
Ajit Cauhan
Deborah Hede
Cyrilla Mozenter
Luke Palascak
Anastasia Tokmakova
Long Play Contemporary ribbon cutting & summer group show inaugural!
2 July – 29 September 2023
Thank you.
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13. Jane Goldberg, FF Alumn, now online at JazzJournalists.org
Dear friends,
If you’re interested, please read an article I wrote for the Jazz Journalists Association: C’mon jazz journalists, cover tap dance! https://news.jazzjournalists.org/cmon-jazz-journalists-cover-tap-dance/
I began this article in June, with lots of back-and-forth editing. Although some parts got cut, the article still remains in my voice. There is a great video of vintage taps and I dancing with jazz music and my partner, Owen, doing his own thing on the lower right – the spirit moved him, as it did all of us.
Disclaimer: I wrote the article specifically geared to Jazz journalists. I meant no offense to many current dance writers covering tap dancing.
Sincerely,
Jane
Thank you.
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14. Brendan Fernades, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com
Please visit this link:
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15. Frank Moore, FF Alumn, in new publication
Frank Moore, FF Alumn, featured in a new book, LAVAPEN – The Art of
LaBash: The Frank Moore posters and other drawings by Michael LaBash.
296 page paperback from the “mind” of LaBash.
From the book jacket:
If you lived in Berkeley, California from 1990 through 2013, you were
likely exposed to the artwork of LaBash through the posters of
shaman/performance artist Frank Moore. LaBash was Moore’s live-in
graphic designer and all-around ”tech guy”. Most of the work in this
book was created for Moore’s performance work and books, and for the
zine, The Cherotic (r)Evolutionary, that they published from 1991-1999.
It also includes work LaBash created for other artists like Barb Golden
and the band, Mutant Press.
“Michael LaBash has become known in the zine subculture for his complex
drawings of a liquid melting erotic world of multi-gender dream
creatures existing beyond taboo, morals and good taste.”
Frank Moore
Our tits of the month uh…artist of the month “Michael LaBash is from
Berkeley, CA and is one of the most chaotic and beautifully perverted
artists in the underground. He works with Frank Moore and they produce
one of the coolest and free-spirited mags around called The Cherotic
(r)Evolutionary.”
The Flashing Astonisher #6 June 1996
“Michael LaBash’s drawings are hilarious and delightful.”
Ralph Haselmann, Lucid Moon
“Thanks for the LaBash artwork. I dig it. Fuckin’ really cool, man. I
love all that psychedelic shit. Something for the eye to look at in
every corner. And he’s not afraid to delve into the perverted areas of
the human psyche. Keep it up LaBash. Keep it up.”
Dave Dannov, artist
“Fascinating stuff! Marquis de Sade meets Basil Wolverton.”
Reed Waller, artist
“The art by LaBash throughout this issue is simply brilliant and the
back cover is a thing of beauty (but not meant for the uptight).”
Ruel Gaviola, amusing yourself to death #6
“Your artwork is lookin great! I fuckin love these things! I haven’t
seen anything _this_ hot since I first looked (many years ago) at the
work of my friends S. Clay Wilson and Keith Haring! Your work has
sharpened up and crystallized into a really snazzy psychedelic view of
heaven, hell, and purgatory—all at the same time! (insane man!) cool
cool”
Art Long, artist
“Every Frank Moore publication I’ve seen has a cover by LaBash whose
drawings are Bezerkeley trippy, trance, erotic and seem to jump off the
coffee table into your face. EEK! … On the back is “Lorena Bobbit
Buddha”, worth the five bucks the magazine will cost you.”
P-FORM #40
“And things wouldn’t be complete without Michael LaBash’s playful
hallucinogenic drawings popping up everywhere.”
Bleeding Velvet Octopus #10
“This idea of inter‑connectedness runs throughout the teachings of Frank
Moore and also appears in the artwork of LaBash (whose splendid work
appears in all the TCRs).”
Open Forum #9 (Athens, Greece)
Please visit this link for ordering information: https://eroplay.com/lavapen/
Thank you.
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16. Judith Bernstein, FF Alumn, now online at LATimes.com
Please visit this link:
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17. Jacki Apple, FF Alumn, now online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XE73wfym4E
Please visit this link to a newly edited recording of the memorial for the art and legacy of Jacki Apple 1941-2022:
Thank you.
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18. Antoinette LaFarge, FF Alumn, at Irvine City Hall, CA, opening Aug. 10 and more
Dear friends:
By now you may have heard rumors that I was planning to retire from UC Irvine. Well, it’s true: as of July 1st I am officially an emerita professor, transitioning to a new phase in which I can be a full-time artist and writer. In addition, I have moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Robert & Reji & I hope to see you on some one of your own travels.
I also want to take this opportunity to update you on a few recent and upcoming projects. The first listed show, “Deep Water/Deep Earth,” is a collaboration with the artist Christel Dillbohner and a sequel to our “Deep Earth” show last year in Fresno. I hope all of you in the SoCal area will consider coming— note that it’s a mid-day opening.
Art at City Hall: Deep Water/Deep Earth
Irvine City Hall
Exhibition: August 10–November 24
Reception: Thursday, August 10, 2–4 p.m.
“DeepWater/Deep Earth” refers to the many levels of physical geography and their transformation under the massive forces of water flow. Aquifers, cisterns, and caverns, pits, and mines — these subsurface geographic features play a vital role in shaping history and culture. Under Irvine lies an enormous aquifer, over one million acre-feet of water that reaches as deep as three-quarters of a mile, stretching to the outer limits of Orange County and beyond. This life-giving resource remains essentially invisible to us even as it affects every aspect of our daily lives, obscuring how greatly we depend on what lies below the earth’s surface. As part of the Art at City Hall series, “Deep Water/Deep Earth” translates these complex flows into a body of collages and prints, along with a programmed digital artwork.
Writing & Design
UC Irvine English professor Jonathan Alexander’s latest book is not only terrific in its own right, but it also features reproductions of the complete set of 9 digital paintings that I created in collaboration with him, inspired by his “Burning Time” cycle of poems. A detail of one of these paintings is the cover image. The book was issued by University of Pittsburgh Press (also Amazon).
Imago
And I’m proud to announce that Robert’s book Imago is now off the press at Theion Publishing I can’t take credit for anything apart from some editing assistance, but it’s a truly unique book. For those of you who are fans of Amanda Yates Garcia, she recently did a terrific podcast with Robert about his book on her Between the Worlds show.
All the best,
Antoinette
Thank you.
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19. Vernon Fisher, FF Alumn, recent news
Vernon Fisher may well have been the most important painter Texas has ever produced. He had books written about his art. He has had paintings in the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Hirshhorn, the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2020, NPR’s show “Art&Seek” and Jerome Weeks didn’t catch up with him in such fancy places. He went to see Fisher in the same battered, street-front studio in Fort Worth he’s used for more than 30 years and released the following very insightful radio interview that I wanted to share with you.
Vernon Fisher: In Pursuit Of The Frivolous And The Tragic
Please click on the link to listen to it and read a transcript with photos in the studio: https://artandseek.org/profiles/vernon-fisher-in-pursuit-of-the-frivolous-and-the-tragic/
Jerome Weeks is the Senior Arts Reporter/Producer for KERA Radio in Texas. Previously at The Dallas Morning News, he was the book columnist for 10 years and the drama critic for 10 years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines.
Vernon Fisher
Fig 54 Symmetry of Displacement, 2001
Acrylic and ink on paper
42 × 42 in / 106.7 × 106.7 cm
Vernon Fisher (1943-2023) was an American artist working in a wide range of media, best known for his skillful combinations and juxtapositions of image and language. Drawing upon his early interest in how people make sense of the world, Fisher weaves together literary references, pop cultural imagery, and cartography with his own symbolic lexicon. Renouncing the convention of a singular or autonomous narrative, his works imply a seemingly endless metonymic chain.
Art Critic Dave Hickey stated that Fisher works in a kind of formula of “imperfectly analogous juxtapositions of three imperfectly distinct kinds of phenomena (the personal, the social, the natural), described by three imperfectly distinct information systems (the literary narrative, the iconographic image, and the cartographic grid).”
In viewing various works made over time, these “imperfectly analogous juxtapositions” begin to form their own story, revealing Fisher’s expertise in creating a unique and elusive narrative with a comic’s sensibility.
View a short YouTube video interview with Vernon Fisher by clicking on the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM1h8A28rwo
Vernon Fisher
Fig. 9 Paranoiacs, 2001
Acrylic on paper
42 × 43 in / 106.7 × 109.2 cm
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/vernon-fisher-fig-9-paranoiacs
Vernon Fisher has been included in two Whitney Biennials (most recently in 2000). Museum installations include the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Hirshhorn Museum (D.C.), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (IL). Major public collections include: Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, (NY), Art Institute of Chicago (IL), Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Dallas Museum of Art (TX), Denver Art Museum (CO), Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis (MN), High Museum of Art, Atlanta (GA), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (TX), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (IL), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (TX), Museum of Modern Art (NY), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Phoenix Art Museum (AZ), San Antonio Museum of Art (TX), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (CA), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY), Tucson Museum of Art, (AZ), Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (MN). The artist lives and works in Fort Worth, TX.
Vernon Fisher
Folly, 2001
Oil and acrylic on paper
36 1/2 × 42 1/2 in / 92.7 × 108 cm
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/vernon-fisher-folly
Vernon Fisher studied art at Hardin-Simmons University and completed his MFA at the University of Illinois, before returning home to Fort Worth. He taught at Austin College in Sherman, Texas until 1978, when he settled into an art faculty position at North Texas University. Fisher’s works have been included in major museum exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., and The Museum of Modern Art in Chicago. His art can be found in the permanent collections of museums across the country, including the Dallas Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago. His post-modern approach explores information transmission, memory, and taxonomy.
A full color catalog and art ist interview from our Statements Series of artist books is available for free download:
https://issuu.com/markmooregallery/docs/statements_19_vernon_fisher/1
Images, biography, reviews, on-line catalogs, and general information on Vernon Fisher and his work can be found on our website for your reference: https://www.markmoorefineart.com/artists/vernon-fisher
Vernon Fisher also recently had a 300 page catlog of his works released: https://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/fisver
This is the first monograph on Vernon Fisher’s work since 1989, and it presents the most comprehensive survey of his art from the early 1970s until 2009, with an emphasis on his mature work. It reproduces twenty suites of Fisher’s work, including Hills Like White Elephants, Parallel Lines, Lost for Words, Brainiac, Movements Among the Dead, and Swimming Lesions.
In her introduction, Frances Colpitt deftly situates Fisher’s work in the context of postmodernism’s radical transformation of art, tracing his affinities with artists such as Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg. She also decodes recurring symbols and literary references in Fisher’s art, showing how this “writerly” artist constructs narratives with multiple meanings and cultural allusions that defy reduction to a single storyline or definite ending. In an interview with Michael Auping, Fisher describes his creative process, especially how he uses “apparently random and disordered notations” to suggest the “tentative and fluid quality of the mind at work.” Acknowledging that his art never reaches a conclusion, Fisher says, “I love the loopy and disconnected . . . for me, the disjunctive and inconclusive is what feels honest and real.”
All work is all available subject to a prior sale. Shipping, customs (if applicable), and/or installation, if any, would be additional.
Please call me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Mark Moore
Mark Moore Fine Art
Phone: +1.310.266.2283
Thank you.
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