Cave Drawings
by Christopher Fisher
October 5th – October 28th, 2012
An exhibition by the artist Christopher Fisher. Cave Drawings are photographic images derived from and referencing the vast underground of advertisement, graffiti, detritus and happenstance that cover walls in the New York City Subway system. Living in Brooklyn% Fisher spends many hours traveling this otherworldly environment. His observations and anthropological like investigations have lead him to this exhibition of photographs which have their own ubiquitous visual language. Peeling layers of paint and paper, as well as tile like remnants of commercial notices and billboards, provide context for these residual abstractions. Inviting us to visually participate, Fisher+s artwork has us re-image the lost messages that are barely visible, if at all. These fragmented and disintegrated wall coverings have superseded their former meaning, instead becoming painterly abstractions of that which remain.
Christopher Fisher celebrates this new found abstraction in his artwork and allows us to engage with past, present, and future as one. The visual image redefined by happenstance, erosion and decay.
