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ABOUT
Lalena Fisher is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Austin,
Texas. She 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, and served as an information-graphics editor at The
New York Times, while writing and performing music locally and regionally
as leader of the band The Color Guard.
Fisher makes fine art; designs logos, characters, apps, 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
Email: Fish (at) LalenaFisher (dot) com
Agent for children's books: Lara Perkins at
Andrea Brown Literary Agency
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For performance dates, please see
The Mothermold.
Assemble to Disassemble
Fisher created an art installation in the Texas Capitol Ground Floor Rotunda
for the first week of the 86th Legislative session in 2019. 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 exhibition then traveled to Boston in 2020, at Harvard University's Smith
Center. To open the show, the Graduate School of Design and Harvard Office for the Arts hosted
a town-hall discussion with the artists on the topic "What Can Arts Activism Accomplish?"
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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