I find myself in continual pursuit of the truth of things. I paint to invoke something aesthetically raw and authentic. The work isn’t emotional (at least not directly); it’s about aliveness, color, beauty, and more of a visceral, visual, wordless way of being awake and present in the world. Color and form are my subjects. From the first mark, each painting presents a dilemma — how to resolve. My process is tactile and intuitive, like chasing a feeling of equilibrium, and I spend a great deal of time thinking about the work, in and out of the studio. Balance is achieved with lots of white paint, color, lines, adding and subtracting layers, building and flattening, complicating and then quieting. Many paintings take me months to resolve. Finished work feels balanced and true.
(b. 1971, Brooklyn, NY)
1992 | BA, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
1994 | MA, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Currently lives/works in Cape Elizabeth/Portland, Maine
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
PALETTE + PALATE | collaborative food + art pairing with 2Gether Private Chefs | The Makers Galley, Portland Maine
2021
Some Studies| Solo Show | Ocean House Gallery, Cape Elizabeth Maine
Here’s the Thing | Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Virginia | Dec 2020 – Jan, 2021
2019
Free to Be | Ocean House Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Not For Wallflowers | Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Ocean House Gallery, Cape Elizabeth, ME
2018
Anthropologie, Portland, Gallery Wall Installation: Winter Palette, Anthropologie, Portland, ME
2016
Color and Structure, Ocean House Gallery & Frame, Cape Elizabeth, ME
Laurie Fisher, Current Works, Falmouth Public Library, Falmouth ME
Anthropologie Portland, Gallery Wall Installation, Anthropologie, Portland, ME
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Good Will II | Viewing Room (virtual) | Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Evergreen | Group show | Portland Art Gallery
New Work | Featured Artist Group Show | Portland Art Gallery, Portland, Maine
2021
New Morning, New Day | Juried Group Show | The Maine Magazine | Online
ARCHITECTURE SHAPE & COLOR: A Group Exhibition | Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
POETS: A Group Exhibition | Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
TESTED: A Group Exhibition | Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019
Pattern Play, Anne Irvine Fine Art, Atlanta GA
On the Verge, Creative Portland Gallery, Portland, ME
GATHER, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018
Small Works, Ocean House Gallery & Frame, Cape Elizabeth, ME
Gallery Launch Party, Jenner McGinn Studio, Atlanta, GA
Small Works Show, Anne Irwin Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Hot Hot Hot, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Small Works, Ocean House Gallery & Frame, Cape Elizabeth, ME
Coastal Living Idea House, Select works as part of showhouse design by Mark D. Sikes, Newport, RI
Spring for Women, Running With Scissors, Portland, ME
Abstraction, large works, Ocean House Gallery & Frame, Cape Elizabeth, ME
Small Works, Ocean House Gallery & Frame, Cape Elizabeth, ME
The Makers Meal, Running With Scissors, Portland, ME
SELECT COLLECTIONS
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond VA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
New Morning, New Day | Juried Group Show | The Maine Magazine | Online | September 2021 print issue
(https://www.themainemag.com/new-morning-new-day-2021-maine-artists/#close)
Modern Luxury Boston: Arcieri, Kate: “Alpine Chic”, Modern Luxury Interiors Boston, February 2019, p. 70-73
digital link: https://www.modernluxury.com/interiors-boston/digital-edition
Maine Home + Design: Falzano, Rebecca and Brittany Cost: “Interior Motives”, Maine Home + Design, February 2017
digital link: https://mainehomedesign.com/magazine/maine-interior-designers/
Maine Home + Design (july 2020
Maine Homes (fall 2019)
Painting is my personal, visceral response to the world. I use paint to evoke something aesthetically raw and authentic. Color and form are my subjects.
Each painting emerges from path of its own. Resolution of the painting is the goal from the first mark, and I spend a great deal of time thinking about the work, in and out of the studio. I work to build and balance the painting’s architecture using color, lots of white, lines, organic shapes, straight edges, layers. Many paintings take months to resolve. Finished work feels aesthetically balanced and true.
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GATHER
December 14, 2018 - January 05, 2019
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HOT! HOT! HOT!
July 12, 2018 to August 31, 2018
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NOT FOR WALLFLOWERS: LAURIE FISHER
June 06 - July 03, 2019