Painting filters a constructed reality through an imagination that gives agency to fantasy -- surrealist strategies as the bathwater to feminist utopian ideals -- feminism filtered through a neutral colorless genderless e-space that hits a wall when reprinted back into the real patriarchal capitalist no health care world. Bootstraps? None here, thank you, my shoes have Velcro. Climate change? Not on my waterfall. Cibachrome? Outmoded. C-Print? Will decay in 70 years. Inkjet on Canvas? Linen? Painting? Painting? Feminism is a misunderstood definition, a buzzword for marginalization. If I use this word in an artist statement, is that saying "Please put me in the corner?" Feminism as a word can seem naïve, perhaps interchangeable for unsuccessful. But what word/s can replace a term that is the key to understanding my relationship to the word with simultaneous love and rage?

 

Fisher's paintings, photographs, and videos have been exhibited internationally in such venues as the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev; Halle fur Kunst, Luneburg; Kemper Museum, Kansas City; Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna; Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Deste Foundation, Athens; and the New Museum, NY. Fisher graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1998, and is a recipient of a 2008 Knight Arts Challenge Grant from the John and James L. Knight Foundation to create and stage site specific performance based works in the South Florida landscape.

 

Naomi Fisher

SCRAPS

2012

HD Video, 8:50 minutes

 

Credits

Video - Naomi Fisher

Performers - Jessie Gold, Elizabeth Hart

Sound Editing - Jay Israelson

 

 

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