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Bill Fisher works in printmaking, performance, and installation. His work foregrounds socio-political commentary, dynamics of power, the anxiety of the absurd, and ecstatic bathos. Fisher pulls inspiration from David Thomas, Randy Rose, Hardy Fox, James Tilly Matthews, Diogenes of Sinope, and Harold Shryock, MD. He holds a BA in Art from the College of William & Mary, an MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University, and Apprentice to the Master at Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo, Japan. Born in Williamsburg, VA, Fisher serves as Professor and Chair in the Department of Art at Georgia College & State University, and has been appointed Under Secretary of Southern Cultural Hegemony and Rural Visual Authority. Fisher has been featured in exhibits in the District Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, the University of Texas at El Paso, Jewett Arts Center, Central Missouri State University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Quinlan Visual Arts Center, the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Eyedrum Gallery, Columbia College, and Asahi Culture Center. His work has been featured in numerous national publications, and resides in the collections of Ohio University, Central Missouri State, University of Southern Indiana, Louisiana State University, University of Utah, and the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent in Liverpool.
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