October 25 - December 1, 2019
“Dark Waves Rising features paintings, works on paper, and mixed media works by Vernon Fisher that appropriate visual vocabulary from sources as scholastic as illustrations in science textbooks to famed early twentieth-century cartoons. Influenced by postmodern theory, Fisher uses a wide range of media to create large-scale collages and paintings that imply complex visual narratives. His hallmark blackboard paintings employ a slate-gray ground reminiscent of a chalkboard’s layered patina. The blackboard’s connotations of erased texts, science labs, and banal classroom moments complement the representational fragments and symbols that occupy the foregrounds of these paintings. However, Fisher is careful to ensure that for all of the loaded imagery in his works, the completed artworks ultimately elude cohesion. Abstraction in Fisher’s art across mediums facilitates attempts at making sense of our increasingly complicated world without any guarantees of success.”
Opening: October 25, 2019 | 6–8 pm
5020 Tracy st.
Dallas, 75205 TX
(214) 521-9898
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