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Indepth Arts News:
"Vernon Fisher's File OO"
2000-01-13 until 2000-03-05
Museum of Fine Art, Houston
Houston, TX,
USA United States of America
Vernon Fisher (born 1943), one of Texas's most acclaimed artists,
fills his work with an intelligence and wit that engage the viewer in
his unique artistic language. For more than 30 years, Fisher has
challenged viewers to find hidden as well as blatant meanings in his
work, and he does so by using seemingly disjunctive elements and
juxtaposing the glorious with the prosaic. The core of his work is
about the process of interpretation. Ironically, his works ultimately
resist resolution.
In a file marked '00' and in other archives, Fisher accumulates
source material that consists of photographs from magazines or
newspapers; maps, charts, and diagrams torn from scientific texts;
and photographs he takes himself, ranging from images of the
sublime landscape to those of the mundane environment -- the
ubiquitous Dairy Queen sign, a recreational vehicle, and concrete
figures on a miniature golf course. File 00 is the origin of Fisher's
creative process.
Philosophically playful, Fisher tells his stories through synthesizing
various media: painting, drawing, photography, found and
fabricated objects, and text. Of the stories Fisher weaves and the
images he accumulates, he shuffles and arranges them into
different combinations until the perfect match between text and
pictures is achieved. These stories come from daily experiences,
observations, and musings that he jots down in a notebook. '. . .
consciousness is a very small part of our interaction with the
world, it is a metaphor for our finding our way,' he stated. 'I see
myself more an observer than anything else. I just see all this stuff
and point to it.'
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