Ellen Fisher

Artist Statement:

Souvenir Series
The ongoing Souvenir series explores the nature of memory. Within that series:

Walking in My Father’s Mind
is in part a reaction to my father’s failing memory — a meditation on how he saw, decoded and navigated the visual world as the guidance of memory faded. The ambiguities of viewpoint, of depth, and of ground-plane in these images are a metaphor for the mysteriousness, and sometimes poetic wonder, that invaded his sense of surroundings.

What I Fear In Dreams
As my father’s memory became increasingly confused, I came to find meaning in the metaphor of the dream: It is not the dream itself that is fearful, it is the loss of the dream as one wakes that brings a nagging anxiousness. That grasping after something which moments ago seemed complete.

Process
All of the images begin as digital photographs. My background is printmaking, not photography. I use Photoshop to concentrate colors and flatten images to varying degrees. Recently, I’m experimenting with large-scale prints on silk and jacquard-weave renderings of the image.

MFA from the Museum School and Tufts University

Recent Exhibits:
Arts Connect at Catamount Arts Juried Show, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT. December 2016-March 2017. Juror: Andrea Rosen, Curator, Fleming Museum of Art at UVM, Burlington, VT.

Newton Art Association Juried Winter Show, Motherbrook Arts Center, Dedham MA. January-February 2017.
Jurors: Casey Curry, Exhhibitions director, New Art Center; Cindy Cuba Clements, artist/board member NAC

Incrementum, Carney Gallery, Regis University, Weston MA. September 2016-January 2017. Curator, Steven Hall, Carney Gallery director.

James King Bonnar Show, New Art Center, Newton MA. December 2016-January 2017.
First Prize. Juror: Katherine French, Catamount Arts Gallery Director, St. Johnsbury VT.

Frances N. Roddy Open Competition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA. September-October 2016
Juror: Katherine French, Catamount Arts Gallery Director, St. Johnsbury VT.

Arts Connect at Catamount Arts Juried Show, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT. September/October 2015
Juror: Katherine French, Catamount Arts Gallery Director, St. Johnsbury VT.

Frances N. Roddy Open Competition, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA. September/October 2015
Juror Jennifer Gross, Chief Curator, deCordova Sculpture Park + Muse...