Stephen Fisher
b. 1954
Stephen Fisher was born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, and he now resides permanently in Rhode Island. His introduction to art occurred in his pre-teenage years when he began to take correspondence school art lessons in exchange for sacrificing playing the trumpet. Fisher earned his undergraduate degree in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale. He taught at five different colleges until he became a Professor of Art at Rhode Island College.
Drawing and printmaking are Fisher’s primary modes, often creating still life or landscape works. Fisher states, “Common to all of the work is my obsession with intense perceptual rigor, compositional manipulation, the viscosity of light, and the tactile, sensual nature of materials.” In addition to those principles, Fisher’s work stems from the principles of observation, representation, and transcendence.
