About

Cleveland Born and Bred.

Currently Creating in Portland.

Lindsey Fischer is an interdisciplinary mixed media artist. She works in painting, sculpture, photography, and installations. Her work examines the relationships of human emotions in correlation with social and personal identity. Her most recent work considers the effects of repetitive behaviors and habits in connection with the experience of fear and loss of individuality.

Fischer’s work has been exhibited at the Hoffman Gallery, the Rush Gallery, and it has been featured in the FSW Compass and the Pioneer Log. She obtained her Associates in Art at Florida SouthWestern State College in Fort Myers where she spent 15 years living and creating. She is currently finishing her BA in Studio Art at Lewis and Clark College.

Artist Statement

The foundation of my work is propelled by a deep curiosity and contemplation about the illustration of feelings and their position in the world.  I’m interested in defining the scope of interpersonal relationships between people, our environment, and ourselves. Incorporating light, form, texture, and color, I create emotive representations about my identity and my place among those relationships through painting, sculpture, photography, and installations.

I appreciate the obscurity of abstract art and its emphasis on gestural movement and intuition over formal content.  My work reconciles physical forms with objective meanings and reimagines how to illustrate human emotions in ambiguous and visceral ways. I focus on self-identity, personal experience, and emotional connection through conversations with stereotypes, labels, and societal norms that I associate with directly or find intriguing externally.

I also consider repetitive behaviors and the process of reconstructing and redefining individuality. My interests form around the concepts of fears and realities of identity loss and the physical and mental changes that occur through personal growth, physical aging, and the continuation of natural life stages. I consider the parallels of both personal and collective identities as I interpret meaning and intention of social ideals and my own perceptions.