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ARTIST STATEMENT


The ideas for my paintings emerge as emotions. My task is to turn those emotions into images. I do this by playing on the viewer’s empathy, sympathy, curiosity and sense of humor. My paintings are figurative, presenting people in varying degrees of self-awareness. I am interested in how people behave alone as well as how they present themselves to others when they want to make a specific impression. These are the two main contexts I have used in exploring this; presenting people in moments of isolation, and presenting them in performance.

Ultimately, the figures are the metaphors for psychological states. Their body language conveys feelings of discomfort and vulnerability, anticipation and trepidation, solitude and melancholy. I seek out the right actors to portray these themes. In this way my work is collaborative. I rely on other people to express my ideas. In the end, however, it is my emotions that I want to convey through them.

My use of paint is at once loose and precise so as to be visually satisfying without intruding upon the image. The medium and surface work to convey a sense that what is on display is frozen in significance. The element of craft implies authorship but the lack of stylization suggests they are neutral documents. As the artist, my role is to step back to let the painting take the stage and let the viewer have the experience.


Jane Fisher is represented by ArtZone 461 Gallery

 


BORN   1961 Marion, OH



EDUCATION


1982-84 MFA, Art Institute of Chicago,

                    

1979-82 BFA, Ohio University



SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2012     Jane Fisher: Under One Sun, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010     Fur, Fish and Game, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA

2009     Hotel Redux, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008     Downtime, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

             Big Women, Bigger Heads, Packer-Schopff Gallery, Chicago , IL

2007     Diversion, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005     Auto Show Featuring Jane Fisher, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002     Wrestling Season, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL

2001     More Men and Motels, LyonsWier Packer Gallery, New York, NY

1999     Narrative Paintings, LyonsWier Gallery, Chicago, IL

1998     Recent Paintings, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996     Images of Bangkok and Bali, LyonsWier & Ginsberg Gallery, Chicago, IL

1994     Jane E. Fisher, Portraits, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL

             University of Illinois, Illini Union Art Gallery, Champaign, IL

1993     Recent Paintings, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1992     Jane E. Fisher: Paintings and Drawings, organized by the Chicago

             Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1991     Recent Drawings, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL

             Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN

1990     Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL

             What Goes On, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1988     Jane Fisher, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL

1986     First Showing, The Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1983     MFA Thesis Show, Triangle Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2011    Blossoms & Roots,  ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011    The Dynamics of Painters,  ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Realists: New, Recent & Historical Works,, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Self-portraits and Others, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Drawings & Prints by Bay Area Artists, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Small Works, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010     AQUA: Art On Water,, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010     UN-TITLED, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010     SF Fine Art Fair, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009     Art for Aids Silent Auction, Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, CA

2009     You Better Come See MF (my friends), ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008     Here and Now, ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007     Spring Training, The Art of Baseball, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco

2006     Faculty Show, Sonoma State University

            The Ninth Inning: The Art of Baseball, George Krevsky Gallery

2005    More than a Game: The Art of Baseball, George Krevsky Gallery

            San Francisco Art Exhibition, Charles Campbell Gallery

            Looking Back and Moving Forward, Charles Campbell Gallery

2003    Figurative Painting 101, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, NY

            San Francisco International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA

            Don O’Melveny Gallery Juried Competition, Los Angeles, CA

2002    New Drawings, Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, WA

            Harboring Beauty, LyonsWier Gallery, Chicago, IL

2001    Four Corners of the World, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

            Gesture, LyonsWier & Packer Gallery, New York, NY

2000    Audubon Artists 58th Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

            Group Show, LyonsWier & Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Hackett-Freedman Gallery Artists, Shasta College, Redding, CA

1999    Contemporary Realism, One Bush Street, San Francisco, CA



AWARDS, GRANTS, COMMISSIONS


1999    Demergasso Portraits, University of California at Stanislas

1994    Community Arts Assistant Program Grant, Illinois Arts Council

1993    Illinois Arts Council Grant, Chicago, IL

1990    Visual Arts Grant in Painting, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation,

             Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1987    Visual Arts Grant in Painting, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation,

            Montreal, Quebec, Canada

            Cash Award, Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO

            First Place and Purchase Award, The Union League Club Exhibition,

            Chicago, IL

1983    Teaching Assistantship, Landscape Painting, The School of the Art Institute of

            Chicago, Chicago, IL

1982    The Sara Sidwel Rogers Prize, Undergraduate Art League Exhibition, Ohio

            University

1981    The Edna Way Memorial Scholarship, Ohio University


BIBLIOGRAPHY


2002    Harper’s Magazine, December 2002 (color reproduction of Arm’s Length)

            Harper’s Magazine, January 2002  (color reproduction of Capri Motel)

1998    Roche, Harry, "Jane Fisher at Hackett-Freedman," Artweek, Oct.

1997    Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 1987-1997, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San

            Francisco, CA (catalog with reproduction)

1993    Artner, Alan, "Work of Jane Fisher at Cultural Center," Chicago Tribune,

            January, p.9C

1992    Hanson, Henry, "Art Works," Chicago, March, p.22

            Art & the Law, West Publishing Co., Egan MN (catalog with color

            reproduction), pp.40-41

            Wilson, Wade, "Jane Fisher at Struve Gallery," New Art Examiner, April 1, p.

            37 (reproduction)

1991    Miro, Marsha, "Flint Looks Back in Design, Forward in Acquisitions," Detroit

            Free Press, June 9

            Young, Christopher, New Horizons in American Realism, Flint Institute of

            Arts, Flint, MI (catalog with color reproductions), pp.52-55

            Art & the Law, West Publishing co., Eagan, MN (catalog with color

            reproduction), pp. 50-51

            Artner, Alan, "Jane Fisher," Chicago Tribune, November 1, p.76

            (reproduction)

1990    "Openings," Art & Antiques, March, p.34

            Artner, Alan, "Fisher Moves Her Eventful Figures Outside," Chicago Tribune,

            November 9, p.74

            Art & the Law, West Publishing Co., Eagan, MN (catalog with color

            reproduction), pp. 46-47

1988    Artner, Alan, "Fisher Uses Body Language to Giver Her Images Voice,”

            Chicago Tribune, July 22, p.57


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