Paintings on exhibit at Monmouth College
Release Date: January 11, 2005
MONMOUTH, Ill. — An exhibition of paintings by New York artist Linda
Jean Fisher will be displayed Jan. 18 through Feb. 11 in Monmouth
College’s Len G. Everett Gallery in Hewes Library. The exhibit is
titled “Linda Jean Fisher: Color from the Inside Out.”
A closing reception for the artist will be held in the gallery at 2
p.m. on Feb. 11. She will also present a lecture that day at 1 p.m.
in the Barnes Electronic Classroom, located in the lower level of
Hewes Library. The exhibition, lecture and reception are all free
and open to the public.
A native of Peekskill, N.Y., Fisher received a B.F.A. degree from
The School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1988 after earning an
A.A.S degree in 1985 from Westchester Community College in Valhalla,
N.Y. From 1988 through 1990 she studied figure sculpture with
Martine Vaugel at The New York Academy of Art in New York City. She
expanded her studies with Vaugel at the Ecole Albert Defois, Les
Cerqueux Sous Passavant in France in 1989.
Fisher’s paintings, sculptures and works on paper have been
exhibited in a number of solo and group shows in galleries and
museums. In addition, her work is in private and corporate
collections, including Pfizer’s permanent collection at the Doral
Arrowwood Education Center in Ryebrook, N.Y. Her work was selected
in 1998, and again in 2002, for the Westchester Biennial at the
Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, N.Y. In 1996, Katharine
Livingston, a choreographer for the Philadelphia-based SCRAP
Performance Group, commissioned Fisher to design and fabricate a
costume for the piece titled “Flesh in Arms.” In 1994, she was one
of 35 artists chosen to participate in The Bronx Museum of the Art’s
14th Artist in the Marketplace program.
This past spring, Fisher began to further investigate emulsion
polymerization, pigments and the science of color and vision, which,
she says, prompted a commitment to the understanding of quantum
physics.
“I recognized a parallel between a possible solution to the
structure of matter and my creative process,” said the artist.
“During the 1960s, theoretical physicists were preoccupied with the
question: What is the ultimate structure of matter? One of the three
possibilities is called ‘worlds within worlds.’ Atoms were once
thought to be elementary and indivisible. Then physicists split the
atom into parts. Then those parts were discovered to have smaller
parts, and so on and so on. My process of dissection uncovers parts
with smaller parts, and so on and so on. I am drawn into endless
‘worlds within worlds’ that provide a productive place for me to
channel my obsessive ways.”
The Everett Gallery is open Mondays through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to
midnight; Fridays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
and Sundays, noon to midnight.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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