Vernon Fisher

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Jocko at Dover, 2009 / oil and acrylic on canvas / 60 x 70 inches
currently at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for retrospective


Artist Biography

Addressing the everyday, Vernon Fisher's multi-media paintings engage with a narrative conceptualism which, when placed over a deliberately misleading grid system, imply that the intent is an informational attempt to solidify meaning. Fisher positively dismisses this possibility via the fluid and interconnected juxtapositions of images and text, which undermine static and singular readings through a mixture of factualities, personal reflection and prognostication, memories and ruminations.

Vernon Fisher (b. 1943, Texas) has been included in three separate Biennials at the Whitney Museum of American Art (most recently in 2000). He is included in numerous major public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art (NY), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY), Art Institute of Chicago (IL), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (DC), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), Albright-Knox Museum (NY), Art Institute of Chicago (IL), Baltimore Museum of Art (MD), Birmingham Museum of Art (AL), The Contemporary Museum (HI), Corcoran Gallery of Art (D.C.), Dallas Museum of Art (TX), Denver Art Museum (CO), Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum (MN), High Museum of Art (GA), Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois (IL), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (TX), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL), Museum of Fine Arts (TX), Museum of Modern Art (NY), Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Phoenix Art Museum (AZ), San Antonio Museum of Art (TX), San Diego Museum of Art (CA), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA).

For a full biography and curriculum vitae, please click the PDF download link below.

Exhibitions


"OPEN"

"OPEN"

Jan 8 – Feb 12, 2011

Vernon Fisher

Vernon Fisher

Nov 18 – Dec 22, 2006

Vernon Fisher

Vernon Fisher

Feb 21 – Mar 27, 2004

Vernon Fisher

Vernon Fisher

May 23 – Jul 3, 1998


Selected Press

Dallas Art Review - The Storyteller Paints a Book

Glasstire - Interview with Vernon Fisher

Art Daily - Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism

Art and Seek - Tuesday Morning Roundup

D Magazine - In Fort Worth Retrospective, Vernon Fisher Plays With the Ephemeral and Permanence

Dallas News - Art Review: Vernon Fisher at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Star-Telegram - Art Review

Art Lies - Vernon Fisher, Jocko at Dover, 2009

Dallas Art News - Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism

Fort Worth Weekly - Fort Worth Artist Gets Modern Show

Artforum - Donald Kuspit