Bill Fisher '85

"In my sophomore year, an aesthetic, pedagogical, and constitutional debate erupted..."

The Fearful Prey
Serigraph, Monotype, 6" x 5"
As The Twig Is Bent
“Taking an early 20th-century "Evolution of the Face" diagram, I have substituted my own face as an example of Modern Man and placed the marble visage of Apollo as the ideal at which the branch terminates. The Sun God is cold, lifeless, a white dwarf. A static ideal, meaningless, petrified stone.” Monotype, 30" x 22", 1998
YARD SIGN 4
“Red, white and blue signs, approximately 1.5' x 2', are to be placed in front yards and other public locations. They are designed to resemble the ubiquitous yard signs printed commercially and posted in front of homes and businesses throughout the southern USA. Re-elect makes explicit the merging of secular and religious iconography implied by the rhetoric of our political leaders.” Digital Print on Tyvek, Wooden Stakes, 18" x 24", 2004
S.M.I.L.E.
Serigraph, 14" x 20", 2005
Nice
Serigraph, Digital Print, 15" x 20", 2005
Public Fliers
“Many of the pieces on my website may be downloaded as high-resolution images for your own use. While some of the work is specific in the subject of its critique or functions pointedly as propaganda, it is intended ideally as a platform for discussion, debate, and interaction, and provides questions rather than posing solutions.” Digital and Xerographic Prints, 11" x 8.5", 2009

"... within the ranks of art students and faculty. A renegade sculptor had apparently assembled a guerrilla wire and steel installation in front of Andrews Hall, without permits or permission. It was an either an eyesore, magnificent, vandalism, free expression, junk, or art, depending on who you spoke to."

"The decision to leave it in place or have it removed was taken out of the hands of the faculty when the workmen arrived to install the thing, the base support for a new satellite dish, on the roof of Andrews." —Bill Fisher

Bill Fisher '85 William "Bill" Fisher received his M.F.A. from Ohio University in 1996 and his B.A. from William & Mary in 1985. From 1989 to 1993, he was an apprentice to woodblock Master Toshii Yoshida in Tokyo, Japan. Currently Bill is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Art at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. His exhibitions/performances include District Fine Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C.; Phoebe Conley Gallery at California State University in Fresno, California; Glass Gallery at the University of Texas, El Paso; and Jewett Arts Center Galleries at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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