Vernon Fisher’s Paintings Showing at UA’s Moody Gallery

Tuscaloosa, Ala. – The Sarah Moody Gallery of Art at The University of Alabama presents the 2005 Farley Moody Galbraith Endowed Exhibition from April 15-June 15. This year’s exhibition will feature work by internationally-acclaimed, Texas-based artist Vernon Fisher.

Public events begin with a lecture by the artist on April 14 at 7 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall. The exhibit opens April 15 with a reception from 6-8 p.m. at the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art in 103 Garland Hall.

The exhibition, Vernon Fisher: Notes for a New Novel, features 11 works which bring together the currents of art and culture into a formalized visual environment. Fisher employs traditional painting, pigment on canvas and adds other components. He has written and inserted text elements within art works and installations that date back to the mid 1980s. He also utilizes cultural resources that thread together art and literature, nautical and strategic sciences, film and visual culture.

Fisher’s work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington D.C., the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Fisher’s work will be exhibited at the gallery from April 15 through June 15. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and 2-5 p.m. Sunday through May 8. For more information please visit www.art.ua.edu or call 205/348-1891.

Funding support for the exhibition comes from the Farley Moody Galbraith Exhibition Fund, the department of art and the College of Arts & Sciences.

The College of Arts and Sciences is the University’s largest division and the largest public liberal arts college in the state with 6,600 students and 360 faculty. Students from the college have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships, and memberships on the “USA Today” Academic All American Team.