Matthew F Fisher is from Three Rivers Michigan and currently resides in
Brooklyn New York. He attended Columbus College of Art & Design but
dropped out and went to Virginia Commonwealth University where he got his
degree in painting and printmaking. His works tend to remain close to some of
the themes from: still life, animals, landscape and stacking of objects and of
course a twisted sense of historical period. He looks up to the Hudson
River School and luminist painters of the 1860’s tend to be his point of
inspiration. He works with mainly canvas and acrylic paints. Fisher
brings a stylized, Pop/ Surrealist panache to his paintings. Fisher's
pop/folk-art/surreal canvases have grown increasing stylized over the past few
years, almost to the point of abstraction. But their fine rendering and odd
subject matter bring undeniable panache to taking apart art-historical
categories such as landscape, still life and Tromp L'oeil painting. He will
think of an idea and make a set of paintings in each genre. While Fisher isn't
a very popular painter, I feel like he plays with pieces that will become well
known. His style is really different and interesting, and I like it. The set of
these prints is called "Ocean". It looks like something that you
would see in a local museum.
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