Joel Fisher
Joel Fisher (born June 6, 1947 in Salem , Ohio , USA ; lives in Brooklyn , Vermont and Paris ) is a contemporary American object artist , draftsman and sculptor .
life and work
Joel Fisher studied at Kenyon College in Ohio until 1969. In the same year he received a Thomas J. Watson travel grant.
He had his first solo exhibition in 1970 at the Whitney Museum - Art Resources Center in New York City . He exhibited in Berlin , London , Paris , Kassel and Amsterdam . His works are, among others, in the collections of the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; at the Center Pompidou in Paris; the Staatliche Museen Berlin , the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Moderna Museet Malmö , the Arts Council of Great Britain in London and the Groningen Museum.
He was a teacher at the Bath Academy of Art in England, at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris Paris and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Joel Fisher also uses unusual materials for his objects, collages and his “biomorphic sculptures” . He was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Individual Mythologies department with his “Hair Squares” made of hair and nails and “SOAP” made of butter and lye .
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Joel Fisher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Examples of his work
- Exhibitions
- Materials by and about Joel Fisher in the documenta archive
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| SURNAME | Fisher, Joel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American object artist, draftsman and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salem , Ohio , USA |