Arline Fisch

Arline Fisch
Born August 21, 1931
Brooklyn, New York[1]
Nationality American
Known for Artist, Painting, Jewelry, Metalworking

Arline Fisch is an American artist and educator, who works with metal as her medium.

Life

Arline Fisch (born 1931) was born in New York City. She learned to sew and weave from her mother and picked up a passion for the color red from her father while growing up in New York. She studied at Skidmore College, receiving her B.S. in Art in 1952. She received her M.A. in Art in 1954 from the University of Illinois. After teaching for two years at Wheaton College, she traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark, on a Fulbright Grant to study silversmithing. She has received three additional Fulbright grants, one to conduct further research in Denmark and two to lecture in Austria and Uruguay. She has taught at Wheaton College, Skidmore College, and San Diego State University, where she retired in 2000. She has exhibited extensively all over the world in group shows and solo exhibitions.

Arline Fisch is best known for the way she handles metal in her pieces. Her book, Textile Techniques in Metal for Jewelers, Textile Artists and Sculptors, is a demonstration of the techniques she developed while trying to combine the textures of weaving with a metal material. She works with thin wire to create forms that have been manipulated in similar ways to knitted or braided fabric. She has cited jewelry of ancient cultures as being a continued reference and inspiration for her work.

Education

Teaching

Honors and Awards

In 2002 an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Skidmore College; in 2006 a fifty thousand dollar fellowship award from United States Artists in support of her creative work; and she is honored by the Fresno Art Museum Council Of 100 as the Distinguished Woman Artist for 2012, for which the exhibition, "In the Garden of Delight: Adornments by Arline Fisch," is a celebration.[2]

Professional

Selected exhibitions

"Woven Gold Spirit Houses" Hand & Spirit, Scottsdale, AZ. SOLO EXHIBITION

"American Crafts: The Nation's Collection", Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

"Contemporary Jewellery", TRIO Exhibition, STUDIO COM Gallery, Kyoto

"School of Fisch", Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark, Catalog

"In Our Hands", 3rd International Competition, Nagoya, Japan

"American Revelations", Shipley Gallery, Gateshead, UK, Catalog "New Times, New Thinking: Jewellery in Europe and America", Crafts Council, London

"Portrait of Masters in the Crafts", Int'l Handwork Fair, Munich, Germany. Catalog. "Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of 20th C. Decorative Arts", Canada. Catalog "Textile Techniques in Metal", Electrum Gallery, London. SOLO EXHIBITION

"Jewellery Moves", National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh

"Aluminum by Design:Jewelry to Jets". Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh "Alles Schmuck", Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich "Women Designers in the USA: 1900–2000" Bard Center for Studies in the Dec Arts, NYC

"Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch":, Textile Museum, Washington DC SOLO "BRAID", Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, DK

"Small Works". Longhouse Reserve and MDS Gallery,Tokyo, Curated by Jack Lenor Larsen

"The Art of California Gold",Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA "The Art of Gold", traveling exhibition organized by SNAG "Boston University's Program in Artisanry", Fuller Museum of Art. Brockton, MA "Planting, Potting and Pruning, Artists and the Cultivated Landscape", Racine Art Museum, WI "Flechten", Handwerks Pflege in Bayern, Munich, Germany "International Showcase", Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK

"California Design 2004", San Francisco "Master and Student", National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

"Scents of Purpose, Artists Interpret the Spice Box", Cont. Jewish Museum, San Francisco

References

  1. ↑ "Biography". Museum of Arts and Design. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Arline Fisch". Ornament Magazine. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch". San Diego Historical Society Museum. Retrieved 20 June 2015.

Sources

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