Brian Fisher Print, Paint and Sculpture Blog

Plymouth Church of Seattle celebrates the opening of their newly remodeled sanctuary.  This beautiful renovation includes lighting, new paint, ceramic tile floors, acoustic wall configurations and an astonishing new ($2.4 million) pipe organ. Modeled after the Cavaille-coll organ at St. Francoise Church in Lyon, France, it will be the only purely authentic French Romantic organ in the Pacific Northwest.  I look forward to the performances! The Sanctuary Improvement Project Committee, improvement donors and all who were involved will be acknowledged in the grand reopening on Sunday, May 3, at 4 PM.  The Susan Pascal Trio and Plymouth Church Choir will perform in celebration. I am so honored that Janice Randal, Plymouth's Director of Communications,    selected my steel and wood sculpture, "Oracle at Delphi" to be part of Plymouth Church's inaugural exhibition! The sanctuary and sculptural exhibit will be open on Seattle's First Thursday Ar

  "Jason"  "The Boxing Match"  "Resurrecting the Ram" and "Claiming the Fleece"  Rust Monoprints by Brian Fisher I am very excited to have work from my Argonautica series selected to hang in the Washington State Governor's Mansion.  This is the third exhibit Roby King Galleries of Bainbridge has curated for the private/public spaces of the Governor's residence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "The Sphinx" was the inspiration for a recent series of eight small prints.  Each was created by printing a cut cork plate over monotype backgrounds.  The cork matrix was an experimental material but definitely one that I will use again. Above is "Life, Death Overtaking" and below "Daedalion Plan"   (5 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.)

Kouros, 30x30 in., Rust Monotype on panel with gold leaf Roby King Galleries In Winslow on Bainbridge Island, Washington, hosts a Printmaking Exhibition this month.  The opening reception is October 3 at 6 PM.  My rust Monotype Kouros (youth), above, and companion print Kore (maiden) will be exhibited. Kouros and Kore were inspired by sculpture of archaic Greece (800 BC – 480 BC).  The Kouroi and Korai sculptures of Greece did not represent an individual but the idea and ideal of youth, a combination of moral and physical beauty and nobility.

Day of the Dead is theme and exhibition at Vashon Intuitive Arts Gallery through the month of October. Nine island artists: Annie Brulé, Sooze Bloom DeLeon Grossman, Adrienne Edmonson, Brian Fisher, Kara LC Jones, Lynndee LeBeau, Carol Schwennesen, Jane Valencia, and Sherene Zolno share imagery inspired by El Día de Muertos.
 
 Opening night, Vashon's First Friday, October 3rd, from 6 to 9PM, will include a live harp performance by Jane Valenci.  Intuitive Arts Gallery also welcomes  images and offerings that celebrate memory and connection from the community.
 "Fetch" honors the  memory of my dog "Tashi" and his obsession/mission in life to retrieve!


Roby King Galleries hosts its first annual exhibition of Puget Sound artists benefiting the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.  It's a big show.  I hope it goes well!  Here is the invitation and artists who are participating.

On September 19 and 20 Vashon Allied Arts will transform, the “O Space” into Outer Space.  This years theme is- 2014: An Art Odyssey . Two evenings of intergalactic fundraising festivities include Friday’s The Big Bang and Saturday’s A Starry Starry Night. Here you may Preview the Auction Catalog and read more about event details , but the count down begins Friday August 29 from 6-9 PM.  It's the real Preview Party and Artist Reception, honoring the artists who have donated over 150 pieces of stellar art to this year’s Art Auction. At left and below is my fantasy take on a robot family.  Maybe this is Hal's family of origin?  It's named "Nuclear Family".  These table toppers do double duty as decoration and as auction items.  Artists volunteer each year to transform similar objects into something artful. This years commissioned artist are: wood sculpture-Tom Northington, jeweler- Gordon R. Barnett, basket maker- Barbara Dusty