Artist Spotlight: Vernon Fisher’s Pursuit Of The Frivolous And The Tragic
Local Audio Posts August 12, 2016 22By the early 1980s, Vernon Fisher was part of a loose group of artists who broke with abstract painting. He’d been painting abstract works himself in the ’70s but, discouraged, he began playing with books and texts, scraps he found around his studio. One day, he was printing out words with an old Dymo plastic label maker.