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Catalog Number |
1994.02.01a |
Title |
Texas Red (Left) |
Artist |
Fisher, Vernon |
Date |
n.d. |
Medium |
Acrylic on canvas |
Material |
Acrylic Paint/Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-93 W-198 inches |
Accession number |
1994.02 |
Description |
Vernon Fisher's artistic career began in the 1970s, and was influenced by the beginnings of postmodern theory. His appropriation of references from vernacular architecture and pop culture reveal the influence of artists like John Baldessai and Ed Ruscha. Fisher used a wide range of media to create large-scale paintings and installations that imply complex visual narratives. He is best known for his chalk board paintings, which employ a slate-gray ground reminiscent of a chalkboard's layered patina. The associations of erased texts and banal classroom moments complement the representational fragments, symbols, and texts that occupy the foreground of these works. Painting is the left panel of a two-part piece. This panel depicts a mountainous Texas landscape painted in monochromatic red. |
Caption |
Texas Red (Left) |
Culture |
American |
Collection |
TMA |
Cataloged by |
Tomio, Kimberley Bush |
Credit Line |
Gift of Bank One, Tyler, Texas, 1994 |
Source |
Bank One, Tyler, Texas |