Dan Fischer: Drawings, 1999–2021 – Alison Jacques

Ana Mendieta

TATE MODERN, LONDON: UNTIL 17 JANUARY 2027

Sheila Hicks: Beyond

PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS DE LILLE, FRANCE: UNTIL 8 MARCH 2027

Lygia Clark represented by Alison Jacques

Lygia Clark

in ‘Sur Moderno: Journeys of Abstraction’, MoMA, New York

Sheila Hicks: Reencuentro

Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Chile

Ian Kiaer: Endnote, ping, murmer

BASE / Progetti per l’Arte, Florence

Takuro Kuwata

in ‘Ceramic Momentum: Staging the Object’, CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art, Denmark

Robert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait, 1980. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, New York. Used by Permission

Robert Mapplethorpe

in ‘Self Evidence: Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe’, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Hannah Wilke

in ‘The World Exists to Be Put on a Postcard’, British Museum, London

Installation view: Ana Mendieta in 'Unsettled | Art on the New Frontier', Palm Springs Art Museum, Nevada. Image courtesy Palm Springs Museum of Art.

Ana Mendieta

in ‘Unsettled: Art on the New Frontier’, Palm Springs Art Museum, Nevada

Hannah Wilke

in ‘Ecstasy’, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Takuro Kuwata

Trading Museum COMME des GARÇONS, Tokyo

Sheila Hicks

in ‘Entangled in the Everyday’, ICA, Boston

Sheila Hicks: Free Threads

Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico

Sheila Hicks & Lenore Tawney

in ‘Beyond Craft’, Tate Modern, London

Alison Jacques Gallery is please to announce ‘Dan Fischer: Drawings, 1999–2021’, a two-decade survey of work by Dan Fischer, which is on view at The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, until 13 August 2021.

Consisting of 70 works spanning from 1999 to 2021, the exhibition highlights Fischer’s iterative exploration of the nature of the photographic medium, mechanical reproduction, and the idea of creating an original copy – a ‘handmade readymade’ or ‘retro-appropriation.

Focusing on well-known, often iconic, representations of artists and artworks, Fischer uses photographs as his starting point. The richly textured, monochromatic drawings he creates replicate these source materials, which the American artist has defined as ‘incredible images from the past 100 years of art history’.

To date, he has depicted such a diverse range of figures as Lygia Clark and Philip Guston in their studios; Andy Warhol appearing before his ‘Flowers’ series; and self-portraits of Ana Mendieta, Gillian Wearing and Hannah Wilke. Fischer is not reliant on a particular system when selecting the images he chooses to duplicate, yet nonetheless has a criteria: ‘I can say that I only draw artists or artworks that have inspired or moved me’.

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