Bio

Beverly Fisher is an artist and curator who brings a unique perspective, having lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where agrairian architecture and land informed her aesthetic. Her studio practice moves between drawing, sculpture, and installation. She is passionate about space design and placing reductive and atmospheric artwork into home and museum collections.

Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the NYC Art on Paper Fair, the Aspen Art Fair, Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado, and the Bachechi Open Space in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as in private collections

Tools for Eating the Moon

Statement 

An installation with paper, water, stone, and salt: A suspended stone, a salt lick, water held in stone, paper, arranged in relation to light and architecture here in the desert. The elements speak to the hand, time, and space, pushing and pulling between two and three dimensions. The gallery is activated by the arrangement of gathered objects and constructed forms in response to the architecture that holds them, how light falls and shifts throughout the day and the fingertip memory of a childhood spent outdoors

The act of drawing and its extension maps the interval between embodied relations open to invention, diversion, transgression and chance encounters. This installation does not resolve into a single meaning. It is an experience, a step along a longer path. A space between It is both natural and not natural, it is neither black nor white but all of the shades of grey. It is not a yes or a no, but infinite maybes

The underlying motivation to making art has always been the desire to make work that was quiet, in the sense that it reveals itself slowly over time. Using a formal language that places the viewer in familiar territory, the work does not depict directly but rather traces a vital definitive gesture suggested by nature, triggering a state of reverie and stillness. Making concentrates my attention in a way that is close to meditation: the eye taking in and the hand giving back.

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