Dan Fischer’s (b. 1977, Brooklyn, NY; lives and works in New Jersey) painstaking graphite drawings pay earnest homage to influential modern and contemporary artists. His process is an exercise in devotional realism: he gathers photocopies from books and journals which he re-creates in pencil with an uncanny mechanical accuracy. Employing a grid to transcribe these images, he calls attention to the specifics of their rendering. Intimately scaled, his images range from straightforward (a serene head shot of Frida Kahlo) to complex (Victor Obsatz’s 1953 double exposure portrait of Duchamp), yet each is treated with the same resolute precision, allowing Fischer to unpack the depth of this history by losing himself in the minutia of the details.
Dan Fischer holds a BFA with a minor in Art History from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University.
Fischer has been exhibiting at the Gallery since 2002. He has had solo exhibitions at Alison Jacques, London, UK (2021); The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2021); and ACME., Los Angeles (2005). He has also been in group exhibitions at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2022); Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles (2017); and BravinLee programs, New York (2016). Fischer’s works have been acquired by a number of institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London, UK; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.