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Artists›Margaret Fisher

Margaret Fisher

American, 1948

WA-00048052

Mixed Media

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Margaret Fisher is an American performance and media artist best known for interdisciplinary works that pair gestural choreography to experimental visual theater characterized by a cartoon aesthetic with wide-ranging cultural references. She emerged amid a 1970s Bay Area experimental performance scene that included artists such as Lynn Hershman Leeson, George Coates, Bill Irwin and Winston Tong, and co-founded the intermedia production group MA FISH CO and the alternative theater Cat's Paw Palace in Berkeley.

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Artworks (6)

Untitled

1960 · Pen and ink and gouache on paper

23.3 × 19.1 cm (9 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1960 · Watercolor and brush and black ink on tracing paper

27.7 × 20 cm (10 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Undersea Tensions

1928 · Watercolor with blue ball-point pen, red fiber-tipped pen, touches of black gouache, and traces of black fiber-tipped pen and graphite, on cream wove paper

17.8 × 23.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Silver-Throated Bird

1918 · Black ink and black crayon on paper

35.5 × 27 cm (14 × 10 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1918 · Watercolor and pen and black ink, with yellow gouache, on ivory wove paper

21.5 × 15.1 cm (8 1/2 × 6 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Facetted Cliffs

1918 · Gouache and watercolor, with graphite and touches pen and black ink, on ivory wove paper

42.2 × 35.3 cm (16 5/8 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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6 published of 6 catalogued · 6 with image

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Chicago, United States

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