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Hot Tub 2, 2002, oil on linen, 62” x 70”
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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