About/Contact/News
ABOUT
Multidisciplinary artist Lalena Fisher earned her MFA in painting/new forms
at Pratt Institute in New
York City while assisting artist Matthew Barney in his studio. After her
graduate work, Fisher
designed for the kids’ TV shows Blue’s Clues
and The Wonder Pets while writing and performing music regionally
as leader of the band The Color Guard.
Fisher serves as an information-graphics editor at The New York Times;
makes fine art painting and sculpure; designs logos and printed matter for
large and small
clients; and creates illustration for children’s publishing.
She is a member of the
Girllustrators.
Fine Art CV •
Artist Statement • Résumé
CONTACT
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Email: Fish (at) LalenaFisher (dot) com
Agent for children's books: Lara Perkins at
Andrea Brown Literary Agency
NEWS/EVENTS
Austin Studio Tour
For Big Medium's online, 2020 version of its annual art event, Fisher opened her studio virtually
to share the thought processes behind her work while creating a mixed-media painting.
She also led an all-ages workshop with fellow artist
Luz Marie Iturbe.
Both recordings are available on Fisher's
artist page of the
Austin Studio Tour website.
Assemble to Disassemble
Fisher's installation was shown at Harvard University's Smith
Center in early 2020 along with the work of Mison Kim and Naomi Spinak.
To open Assemble to Disassemble at Harvard, the Graduate School of Design and Harvard Office for the Arts hosted
a town-hall discussion with the artists in the Smith Center Commons, on the topic "What Can Arts Activism Accomplish?"
In 2019, Fisher created an art installation in the Texas Capitol Ground Floor Rotunda
for the first week of the 86th Legislative session. Moved by the
determination of young people who marched nationwide in 2018 to demand sensible
gun regulation, she titled the work Assemble to Disassemble, and
invited two other artists,
Mison Kim and
Naomi Spinak
to exhibit their work alongside hers. The show intended to provide different
perspectives on the foundations of, effects of, and responses to gun culture.
The Austin American-Statesman article •
The Austin American-Statesman video
Glasstire
Sight Lines
Harvard press release
OffWEST In 2017, LalenaLab hosted an exhibition using our four spaces
to show the fine art work of
Yareth Fernandez,
Michele Hogan,
Marilyn Darrell,
and Lalena Fisher.
The event included performances by
Cienfuegos,
Screen Door Slammers, and The Mothermold.
Guests enjoyed refreshments from sponsors
Bouldin Creek Cafe and
Slow Pokes Brisket Shack.
More about OffWEST may be read on the
Off WEST press release.
Photos from the event are posted in the Off WEST
LalenaLab Facebook photo album;
videos on the
main page.
Artist Talk Fisher gave an artist talk at City Hall in June 2016, which may be streamed on the
City of Austin website; the segment lasts 15 minutes, from 19:42-34:24.
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