Current Exhibition

Andreas Fischer: Ghost Town
Jan. 21 to Feb. 27, 2010, Gahlberg Gallery

Andreas Fischer: Ghost Town
Jan. 17 to April 18, 2010, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago

Andreas Fischer's current project Ghost Town consists of two bodies of work: a group of ghostly portraits and an assortment of imagined landscapes that all evoke the province of the 19th-century American West. The landscapes are all titled Original Location, divorcing the pictures from specific historical events and instead depicting nature reclaimed. As complements to the portraits, Fischer’s landscapes furnish settings for the figures and their bygone grandiose visions for the American West. Similarly, the portraits reference human histories forgotten. Instead of naming the sitters in these paintings, Fischer underscores the distance between their images and their long-forgotten narratives by giving the paintings all the same title, Sunday Best. Because the subjects are rendered anonymous, Fischer’s variety of paint application and somber palette provide substance to these poignant and mottled figures.

This exhibition is at two different locations and accompanied by an exhibition catalog. A series of the portraits will be on exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, and the landscapes paintings along with a few portraits will be exhibited at the Gahlberg Gallery at College of DuPage.
 

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This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and by The National Endowment for the Arts.