Artist Profile
Stacy Fisher
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
The paintings of Stacy Fisher (b.1974) can be viewed through the lens of both painting and sculpture, bridging the visual space between the two mediums with dense strokes of oil paint and lyrical constructions that cast shadows beyond the frame. Her works begin with the inspiration of the physical world through the consideration of materials that are seen as supports for paint that seeks to complicate and contrast with their form. Made purposely small scale to represent a hand-held equivalence to the human body while providing greater visibility for imperfections like nail holes, her paintings imply intimate conversations between materials and paint to highlight a point in which the two intersect. Fisher explores the limitations of physicality through her paintings, blurring the edges and boundaries, and allowing for the abstract idea of the beginning and the end to become obscured yet interconnected.
Fisher has had solo exhibitions in New York at 57W57Arts, Hesse Flatow and Sardine. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at galleries in New York such as BravinLee Programs, Mother, My Pet Ram, Thierry Goldberg, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, as well as Left Field (CA) and LVL3 (Chicago). Fisher was a participant in LMCC’s Process Space Program and has completed residencies at the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Chautauqua School of Art. Her work has been reviewed by Artforum, Beautiful Decay, New American Paintings, The New York Times, and Two Coats of Paint.
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Fisher has had solo exhibitions in New York at 57W57Arts, Hesse Flatow and Sardine. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at galleries in New York such as BravinLee Programs, Mother, My Pet Ram, Thierry Goldberg, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, as well as Left Field (CA) and LVL3 (Chicago). Fisher was a participant in LMCC’s Process Space Program and has completed residencies at the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Chautauqua School of Art. Her work has been reviewed by Artforum, Beautiful Decay, New American Paintings, The New York Times, and Two Coats of Paint.
Artist Statement
“...the fact that now I’ve forgotten what I came in the pantry for, the fact that I should finish filling the dishwasher first, the fact that the taste of lukewarm milk, and the smell of burnt toast, always reminds me of our year in London...”
-Lucy Ellmann, Ducks NewburyPort
When I first began this body of work I was in the midst of reading novels written in the stream of consciousness style. I found common ground in the combination of meandering thinking coupled with the completion of daily tasks. My work begins with an interest in the physical world through its structure, and then expands that world through color and varying levels of transparency.
The scale of my paintings are similar in size to handheld objects. The intimate dimensions enhance the residue of their construction by giving small, factual details like nail holes, shadows, and brushstrokes, more visibility. I make the supports first by layering pieces of plywood. Afterwards, I paint them so that edges are emphasized or blurred, and straight lines change direction when viewed from the side. I think of them as marking the moment when one thing stops and another starts, or as different points of view of the same story.