| NAOMI FISHER |
Born in 1976, Naomi Fisher graduated from New World School of the Arts, Miami, and earned a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, in 1998. A resident of Miami, she has exhibited her expressive drawings and photographs of women interacting with nature in solo shows at the Miami Art Museum, the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. In 2004, Fisher joined with artist Hernan Bas to found the Bas Fisher Invitational, an artist-run alternative display space in Miami’s Design District. Fisher’s work has been acquired by the Miami Art Museum.
In her vivid drawings and staged, lavishly-colored photographs, Fisher explores the complex relationship between humans and nature as symbolized by Florida’s tropical landscape. In some, nature is predatory and invasive as it imprisons or impedes the body, while in others the artist posits a more harmonious--and erotically charged--relationship with nature’s lushness, with which she identifies as a woman. Fisher’s imagery also includes modishly-dressed “tough-girls” inspired by Xena the Warrior Princess and Lara Croft, reflecting the shift in how women are viewed in today’s culture.
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