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"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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