Disengagement

Artist/Creator: Brian Fisher (Artist)
Date: 1966
ID #: BG2194

Physical Description

Medium: acrylic
Support: canvas
Dimensions: 112 cm 119.5 cm (Object)
Object Description: Educated in part by another Regina-Vancouver artist, Roy Kiyooka, Fisher’s hard-edged paintings rank among Canada’s most distinctive works of abstract art, as exemplified by this 1966 work. Disengagement is an intricate geometric web of carefully executed lines of acrylic paint that elicit an almost shuddering movement when seen from afar. His art leans into his deep interest in mathematics and science, while still nodding to his curiosity with Eastern spirituality. Former Belkin director Scott Watson notes that, “his arrays of perspectival lines vanishing into infinity and criss-crossed with verticals to create moiré patterns allied him with Op Art, an association he was eager to discourage, for his impeccable paintings also harboured contradictions. Fisher saw his work in terms of both process and icon. In his own words, his paintings were ‘visual analogies, signposts to a mental process which also feels and generates the sensibilities that created them.’”

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Gift of Diane Fehring Reynolds, in memory of Joanna Eckstein and Stephen Joseph, 2000
Related Exhibitions: –

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