Sarah Fisher Sarah Fisher is a visual artist who explores portraiture through the lens of painting, collage, printmaking, installation and sculpture. Solo exhibitions include: It’s OK To Feel This, Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery, Houston, TX (2024), When I Walk I See Things, landSPACE: a kunsthalle, Austin, TX (2023), You Won’t See It Coming, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, TX (2022); Decisions, Michelson Museum of Art, Marshall, TX (2022); It’s No Small Thing, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX (2021); The Second Yes, Front Gallery, Houston, TX (2019); and Seen, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, TX (2017). Recent two-person exhibitions: Mrs. Schmetterling Unframed, University of Houston Downtown’s O’Kane Gallery, Houston, TX (2022) and Found/Loaded, Stephen F. Austin State University’s Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX (2021). Recent group exhibitions: Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Women in Art, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX (2024), Ignition: G5 Collective at The Jung Center, Houston, TX (2023), 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lufkin, TX (2022), Bearing Witness: Houston Artists Respond, The Blaffer Museum, Houston, TX (2022); Portraits: Impressions of Our Times, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX (2021), A Collection of Friends, Selections from the Estate of William F. Lassiter, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2020). In 2021, Fisher was awarded the 2021 Summer Grant Trio Grand Prize by the Wendy Wagner Foundation. Her mixed-media work is published in Mrs. Schmetterling (Arrowsmith Press, 2021), a book of poetry by Robin Davidson. Fisher graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1986 and completed the MFAH Glassell School of Art BLOCK Advanced Studio program in 2018. She is a member of G5 Collective in Houston, TX, where she lives and works. ARTIST STATEMENTI record the human need to be authentically seen. Working in a variety of media, I create two- and three-dimensional portraits of myself and people I know, love and encounter. My subjects share a strong sense of self and a willingness to be known. Education2016 - 2018 MFAH Glassell School of Art BLOCK Advanced Studio Program1986: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Solo ExhibitionsUpcoming November 2024: V, Jung Center of Houston, Houston, TX2024 It’s OK To Feel This, Lanecia Rouse Tinsley Gallery, Houston, TX2023 When I Walk I See Things, landSPACE: a kunsthalle, East Austin, TX2022 You Won’t See It Coming, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, TX2022 Decisions, Michelson Museum of Art, Marshall, TX2021 It’s No Small Thing, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX2019 The Second Yes, Front Gallery, Houston, TX2017 Seen, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, TX Joint Exhibitions2022 Mrs. Schmetterling Unframed, with poet Robin Davidson, O’Kane Gallery, UH Downtown, Houston, TX2021 Found/Loaded, Sarah Fisher/Rachel Anderson,The Ed & Gwen Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX2016 Beyond Resemblance: Two Takes on the Portrait, Marky Dewhirst and Sarah Fisher, Interspace Gallery, MFAH Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX Group ExhibitionsJune 17 — October 10, 2024 Tender Loving Care, Curator: Kimberly Landa, Kinzelman Art Consulting, 700 Louisiana, Houston, TX2024 Lawndale Lending Library, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX2024 Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Women in Art, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX 2023 Crossroads — Eastward Imprints: Houston Artists in Austin, Curator: Jonathan Paul Jackson, Big Medium, Austin, TX2023 Ignition: G5 Collective at The Jung Center, The Jung Center, Houston, TX2022 Houston Arts Alliance Add-On Gala, Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX2022 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX2022 Bearing Witness: Houston Artists Respond, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX2021 Portraits: Impressions of Our Times, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX2020 A Collection of Friends, Selections from the Estate of William F. Lassiter, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX2019 25th Anniversary Texas National, Juror: Michelle White, The Ed & Gwen Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX2019 Lawndale Lending Library, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX2019 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Juror: Jennie Goldstein, KBR Building Gallery, Houston, TX2018 Yours, Mine and Ours, Selections from the Lawndale Lending Library, Houston Community College Central Gallery, Houston, TX2018 Lawndale Lending Library, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX2018 The Big Show, Juror: Evelyn C. Hankins, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX2018 BLOCK XVIII, Curator: Joseph Havel, MFAH Glassell School of Arts, Houston, TX2018 Artspace III Regional Juried Exhibition, Juror: Christina Rees, Fort Worth, TX2018 44 Artists from Texas: Part Two, Curator: Linda Cullum, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX2018 Always Strong, Curator: Tommy Gregory, Bush Intercontinental Airport Terminal A, Houston, TX2018 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Juror: Anna Katz, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX2017 Three Feet High and Rising, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, TX2017 The BLOCK: Glassell School of Art BLOCK XV111-XIX, Curator: Sally Sprout, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX2017 Known and Underknown Ed. 2017, Curator: Sally Reynolds, Two Allen Center Gallery, Houston, TX2017 Art City Austin, Group booth with Art Palace Gallery, Austin, TX2017 BLOCK XVI Spring Show, Interspace Gallery, MFAH Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX2017 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Juror: José Esparza Chong Cuy, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX2016 MFAH Glassell School of Art Student Exhibition, Houston, TX Honors, Awards, Grants2023 Number 4, Glasstire Top Five, When I Walk I See Things, landSPACE: a kunthalle, Austin, TX, glasstire.com, 5.4.232022 Number 1, Glasstire Top Five, You Won’t See It Coming, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, TX, glasstire.com, 8.18.22, illustration2021 Grand Prize, Wendy Wagner Foundation Summer Trio Grant, Houston, TX2020-2021 Guest Artist, Texas Children’s Hospital Cancer Center/Periwinkle Foundation Making A Mark® program, Houston, TX2019 Honorable Mention, 25th Anniversary Texas National, Juror: Michelle White, The Ed & Gwen Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX2018 Juror’s Choice, The Big Show, Juror: Evelyn C. Hankins, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX Books2021 Mrs. Schmetterling, Poems by Robin Davidson with artwork by Sarah Fisher, Arrowsmith Press, cover plus illustrations, pp. 15, 18, 21, 22, 25, 28, 31, 32, 35, 42, 54Exhibition Catalogues2022 You Won’t See It Coming, solo exhibition, Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, TX2021 It’s No Small Thing, solo exhibition, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX2021 Found/Loaded, joint exhibition with Rachel Anderson, The Ed & Gwen Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX Recorded Artist Talks2021 It’s No Small Thing, recorded at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA) on June 5, 2021, LHUCA YouTube Channel, Lubbock, TX2021 Found/Loaded, recorded and live streamed at The Ed & Gwen Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, February 26, 2021, SFA Fine Arts YouTube Channel, Nacogdoches, TX Selected BibliographyBecker, Chris, 'It's OK to Feel This': Mantra Inspires Mixed-Media Artist to Create Meditative Portraiture, houstoncitybook.com, 2.15.24, illustrationsTennant, Donna, ‘Review: G5’s ‘Ignition’ at the Jung Center, Houston, glassire.com, 9.17.23, illustrationsTennant, Donna, ‘Seeing Things: Sarah Fisher at landSPACE in Austin,’ artsandculturetx.com, 5.1.23, illustrationsTaylor, Sheryl E., ‘O’Kane Gallery Premieres ‘Mrs. Schmetterling Unframed’ Oct. 20,’ uhd.edu, 10.13.11, illustrationsBecker, Chris, ‘Poet Robin Davidson Reads from Her Quirky, ‘Serendipitous’ New Collection at Brazos Bookstore Event,’ houstoncitybook.com, 9.7.22, illustration‘Museum of East Texas presents a solo exhibition of Houston artist Sarah Fisher,’ artdaily.com, 8.18.22, illustrationsGlasstire Top Five, glasstire.com, 8.18.22, illustrationFraze, Kayley, ‘Mirror, mirror: MET to present exhibition of Houston artist Sarah Fisher,’ Lufkin Daily News, p.1, 7A, 8.5.22, illustrationsHarker, Jessica, ‘Michelson Museum of Art opens new show “Decisions,”’ The Marshall News Messenger, 3.4.22, illustrationsSimms, Michael, ‘Robin Davidson: Mrs. Schmetterling Considers the Beautiful,’ voxpopulisphere.com, 3.1.22, illustration‘Michelson Museum Shows ‘Decisions By Sarah Fisher,’ County Line Magazine, 2.21.22, illustrationCarls, Alice-Catherine, ‘Robin Davidson’s Mrs. Schmetterling, Quiet Revolutionary,’ World Literature Today, worldliteraturetoday.com, illustrationEmery, Mike, ‘Poet & Professor Robin Davidson Introduces Readers to ‘Mrs. Schmetterling,’ UHD News, news.uhd.edu, 12.2.21, illustrationSimms, Michael, ‘Robin Davidson: Mrs. Schmetterling Kneels in a Garden,’ voxpopulisphere.com, 11/15/21, illustrationGipson, Amarie, ‘Very Artsy News: Local Artist Sarah Fisher is Making A Mark®,’ Houstonia Magazine, houstoniamag.com, 9.13.21, illustrationAnspon, Catherine D., ‘Saying Farewell to a Champion of Texas Art,’ PaperCity Magazine, March 2021, p. 23, illustrationVisit Houston, Featured Houston Artist, Facebook, 11.2.20, illustrationsAviña, Michelle, ‘Untitled,’ print and online, PaperCity Magazine, papercity.com, May 2020, p. 39,41, illustrations Glentzer, Molly, ‘Art Review: Sarah Fisher’s unsentimental portraiture,’ print and online, Houston Chronicle, houstonchronicle.com, 11.14.19, p. D20, illustrationAnspon, Catherine D., ‘Portrait Rama,’ PaperCity Houston, November 2019, p. 82, illustrationKooker, Cristina, ‘How art can be therapeutic, even if you’re a beginner,’ KHOU Great Day Houston, 10.30.19Casparie, Sabine, ‘After Harvey,’ ARTHOUSTON, Spring/Summer 2019, p. 32-34, illustrationsIrerra, Alex, ‘Sarah Fisher: An Interview,’ thehoustonreview.com, 11.28.18, illustrationsPinnick, Donna, ‘Lawndale Lending Library at Central: Yours, Mine, and Ours,’ HCC Edutube, television and online, edutube.hccs.edu, 11.16.18, on-camera and illustrationMagee, Patrick, ‘Statement Pieces: Words with Friends,’ print and online, HoustonCityBook, houstoncitybook.com, November 2018, pp. 16, 82, illustrationsHuete, Betsy, ‘Betsy Huete’s Big Show Top Ten of 2018,’ glasstire.com, 10.8.18, illustrationVisitHouston, ‘That was Harvey. This is Houston,’ September 2018, Texas Monthly, illustrationTommaney, Susie, ‘Bourley, Fisher, Manalo and Said Take Top Honors in Lawndale’s ‘The Big Show,’ houstonpress.com, 9.18.18, illustrationDavis, Martha, ‘That was Harvey, This is Houston Comes to GRB,’ avenidahouston.com, 9.9.18, illustrationHoustonFirst, ‘Artist Work Honoring Volunteers on Display at George R. Brown,’ houstonfirst.com, 9.5.18, illustrationWozny, Nancy, ‘Texas Lens: Resilience,’ artsandculturetx.com, 5.30.18, illustrationKinney, Morgan, ‘This Airport Painting Shows the World Who Houston Is,” houstonia.com, 4.1.18, illustrationMerrill, Maria, ‘Being Seen/Vanity Dare,’ amazon.com, 5.17Anspon, Catherine D., ‘Houston Woman’s Incredible Instagram Posts Land Her a Major Art Show: Getting Discovered Through Social Media,’ papercity.com, 3.4.17, illustrationsGlentzer, Molly, ‘Culture Scene Preview,’ print and online, Houston Chronicle, 2.16.17, p. D16, illustrationBise, Michael, ‘Sarah Fisher and Bill Willis at Art Palace,’ glasstire.com, 1.9.17, illustrations