Picture Frame 2005 (2005) Sculpture by Theodore Fisher

I was born and have lived almost my entire life in beautiful Portland, Oregon, which has powerfully shaped my art. I always knew I was an artist, taking art classes as a youth. I started carving at age 14, and fell in love with the medium. I only managed to survive a year of college as an art student, though, discovering near that year's end a deep antipathy to ArtSpeak. You know - "The artist's clear refrences to a tradition of socially alert codification of nomadic realities combined with what I may call static linearity conditions the viewer to an expectation of revealed truths that may instintively re-affirm marginalized . . ." At which point I start to scream and foam at the mouth, throwing codified nomatic objects at the static speaker. I have continued my work without recognition or any great level of success, mostly because I fell early on under the spell of the grain, which I reveal by a sanding process using every grit available, some 12 to 15 steps requiring tremendous time and not a little pain; thus my per-hour for the some 75 pieces I have sold has never made it possible to support myself by it. The process of hand-rubbing has given me Leukemia (not, thankfully, active!) so anybody what wants this stuff now is gonna pay through the nose! (Oh, wait - I better not say that!)


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• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : 1951
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary American Artists