Laurie Fisher

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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.