Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Thank Alex
Thanks for the feed back it is greatly appreciated.
http://d-jam.blogspot.com/2008/10/art-of-jason-fisher.html
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Peeps
Me and Davina... Thanks for being there every step of the way.
First Purchase (Thanks Brian)
Aaron Leutwiler... Thanks next time you will get to play longer for sure. If anyone needs a percussionist contact him at leut@hotmail.com.
Me and Jay... Thanks Jay for the opportunity to show at previous shows and being the DJ that night. Pst.... lets get the wheels moving for the next show.
Mel... Thanks for helping me hang the show I would still be hanging if it wasn't for you. Thank you so much.
Last but not least as they say Dalia. Thanks for everything you have done to support me. You are the one who takes my thoughts and emotions and puts them into beautiful words. What a talented writer if only she would get her book published. There now it is public. Get it done.
I wouldn't have been able to put this on without these peeps. A million thanks.
- Jason
Friday, September 12, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
My Artist Statement
Andy Warhol thought that photography was going to be the next medium to explode. He was right, to a degree. With photography being so accessible a medium, consumerism has polluted it as an art form.
One glossy magazine after the next has been born, each jam-packed with suggestive photographs creaming in our faces in order to get a product, brand or service noticed. These dollar sign stained pages are so airbrushed and manipulated that it’s hard to remember what they are truly meant to do – sell things.
When we remove what’s being advertised from the page, what are we left with? Fashion bibles full of lascivious poses that incite emotion without an object. Without something for feelings to attach to, the desire is directionless.
These paintings are intended to emit unrequited lust and cause tension – images that callously cause a sense of yearning. When done on a large scale without all the surreal fashion realism of airbrushing, what are we left with? It’s confusion and frustration, but beauty.
Consider this an attempt to turn the saturation of photography’s commercialism on its head. Perhaps we can remember what photogrpahy was like as an artistic expression before it became synonymous with pop culture. Maybe we can look at these images and see through the digital manipulation of dewy skin and moist lips. This is one medium promoting another, taking everyday imagery and turning it into something new again. Maybe even bringing it back to life.
One glossy magazine after the next has been born, each jam-packed with suggestive photographs creaming in our faces in order to get a product, brand or service noticed. These dollar sign stained pages are so airbrushed and manipulated that it’s hard to remember what they are truly meant to do – sell things.
When we remove what’s being advertised from the page, what are we left with? Fashion bibles full of lascivious poses that incite emotion without an object. Without something for feelings to attach to, the desire is directionless.
These paintings are intended to emit unrequited lust and cause tension – images that callously cause a sense of yearning. When done on a large scale without all the surreal fashion realism of airbrushing, what are we left with? It’s confusion and frustration, but beauty.
Consider this an attempt to turn the saturation of photography’s commercialism on its head. Perhaps we can remember what photogrpahy was like as an artistic expression before it became synonymous with pop culture. Maybe we can look at these images and see through the digital manipulation of dewy skin and moist lips. This is one medium promoting another, taking everyday imagery and turning it into something new again. Maybe even bringing it back to life.
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