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Kim Fisher renders her sleek geometric shapes with such precision, she seems to wield a tool for cutting rather than for painting. Then again, every shape is distinctly painted, each a different cool-toned color, some gradated, some layered over or scraped across with black. Fisher does not obscure her materials, but rather emphasizes them: not only the rich opacities of her oil paint but also the fine fabric of her linen canvas, which she stretched sharply around the work’s corners but then fanned out instead of tucking back. All of the canvas is visible, all of it is painted, and both its papery crinkling and its curling corners make for a stark contrast with the composition’s radiating, appliqué-like forms. There is no illusionism here, and yet the fact that each shape is slightly different in coloration or treatment summons a faceted gemstone struck by light—on a scale only possible because this diamond emerged from a painter’s studio. (Kate Nesin, 2021)
Tags:
conceptual art; abstract; shape; structures Subjects:
Women artists; Art, Abstract; Conceptual art; Shapes; Linen Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+2018.95 |
