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About the artist: 

Chuck Fischer received his BFA from the University of Kansas in 1978 and has continued his education by way of workshops and residencies ever since. His work is in numerous corporate and private collections and was recently featured in the fine art magazines, Artists Magazine, and Woven Tale Press. Earlier in his career, Fischer created 9 pop-up books including Great American Houses and Gardens (Rizzoli/Universe) and Christmas in New York (Little, Brown & Co.). His designs are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Museum and Museum of American History, and in the Artist Book section of the Library of Congress.  Fischer has created eponymous tabletop designs for Lenox, wallpaper and fabric designs for Brunschwig & Fils and F.  Schumacher & Co., exclusive giftware and holiday cards for The White House Historical Association, and fine paper products for Caspari.         

"My Abstract Assemblages break the plane of two-dimensional art. I create textured and dimensional work that I intricately hand cut and assemble from wood, aluminum, and copper, then finish with colored gesso and modeling paste to bring the surface of the work into conversation with its maze-like depth. Recently, I decided to incorporate trompe l’oeil painting in some of my works to fool the viewer as to what is real and what is painted. Visual mystery is also created by hiding sections of the work behind textured geometric pieces or painted fabric, resulting in a lively interplay between perception and deception. I often work in series, and in my new Zen series, I am incorporating mythical Asian landscapes within my abstract constructions. This visual complexity runs throughout my work, and I trust my intuition, life experiences, and the materials at hand to create works of spatial balance and harmony."

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