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Vernon Fisher @ The Blanton
During the course of his nearly 40-year career, North Texas-based artist Vernon Fisher has produced some of the art world’s most critically acclaimed mixed-media conceptual installations that combine text, photos and found objects.
In her introduction to the new monograph of Fisher’s work published by UT Press, critic Francis Colpitt writes in her introduction that from the beginning of his career Fisher “was tuned in to the breakdown of monolithic modernism.”
Says Fisher in his interview with Michael Auping, chief curator of Fort Worth’s Modern Art Museum: “I love the loopy and disconnected… for me, the disjunctive and inconclusive is what feels honest and real.”
Subject of a current career retrospective at Fort Worth’s Museum of Modern Art, Fisher drops into Austin on Sunday for a discussion of his work.
Before signing copies of the new monograph, and as part of the Blanton’s book club, Fisher will discuss the books that have had the most influence on his practice: ‘Reality Isn’t What it Used To Be’ by Walter Truett Anderson, ‘Cloud Atlas,’ by David Mitchell, ‘The Elizabethan World Picture’ by E.M.Y. Tillyard and ‘The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind’ by Julian Jaynes.
2 p.m. artist’s discussion
3 p.m. book-signing
Blanton Museum of Art, Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and Congress Ave.
Free
www.blantonmuseum.org
Image: Vernon Fisher, ‘Evidence of Houdini’s Return, Oil, blackboard slating, wood, mixed media on board (93 in. x 93 in. x 10 in.) Blanton Museum of Art. Purchase through the Michener Acquisitions Fund and with support from Linda Pace.
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