Kim Fisher

Artists Statement My work is a direct response to living and working in Los Angeles. My paintings are interpretations of clippings from newspapers and magazine pages. Fragments become imbued with pathos while they forge relationships with painting, namely light, surface and color. The quality of the original scraps and the subsequent paintings reflect the effect sun and heat have over time on materials in Los Angeles. More recently, I have begun using a camera to directly source my visual material, recording visual snippets and information surrounding my day to day experience living in Los Angeles to create large scale collages. (My practice has always utilized collage in the preliminary conception of my paintings as well as the approach I take when installing and arranging them for an exhibition.) The collages assume the form of enlarged, oversized, ripped and cut paper but on closer inspection reveal that they are collaged screen prints on cut aluminum. The works escape the fragility of paper while still retaining the marks and character of their material origins. Like the scraps they are derived from, my paintings become embedded with complex surfaces and a strong material presence. Social and cultural questions surrounding location, landscape, and personal experience are evoked through collage, scale, and/or an obscuration from the original source. (i.e. the inside of a bubblegum wrapper, the reverse side of a page, the margin of a book) Arranged in groups, fragments of frozen images and color form a psychological space. With this, I hope to evoke adverse feelings and tensions like desire, melancholy, beauty, anxiety and visual disorientation. The harsh effects of the climate are echoed in the faded colors and torn edges of the shapes, suggesting the ephemerality and transience of the landscape in Los Angeles. Website: themoderninstitute.com/artists/kim-fisher Biography Selected Solo Exhibitions 2018 The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland 2017 If...We, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL 2016 A Little Bit of But, LA> 2014 Dirty Kitchen, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Selected Group Exhibitions 2018 Brush for Hire, Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, ICA, Los Angeles 2017 The Brightsiders, Curated by Adam Miller, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA 2014 Made In LA, curated by Connie Butler and Michael Ned Holte, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2013 Painting in Place, curated by Shamim Momin / LAND, Farmers and Merchants Bank, Los Angeles, CA Select Fellowships and Awards 2018 COLA, City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Los Angeles Selected Bibliography 2016 Taft, Catherine, Not Expecting Any Disasters (A Little Bit of But exhibition catalog), Published by LAXART, December 2016. 2014 Berardini, Andrew, Mousse Magazine, Pieced Together: Alice Konitz and Kim Fisher, No.45 October- 2009 Nickas, Robert, Painting Abstraction, Phaidon Press Limited, 2009. Education M. F. A., 1998 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA B. A., 1996 University of California, Los Angeles, CA