https://michellemillarfisher.com Michelle Millar Fisher Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:11:52 +0000 https://michellemillarfisher.com en https://michellemillarfisher.com/Home Thu, 14 Apr 2022 23:49:35 +0000 Michelle Millar Fisher https://michellemillarfisher.com/Home https://michellemillarfisher.com/Dinora-Justice Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:11:52 +0000 Michelle Millar Fisher https://michellemillarfisher.com/Dinora-Justice Dinorá Justice: The Lay of the Land Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. November 18, 2023 - April 14, 2024 <img width="1364" height="928" width_o="1364" height_o="928" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e791cdc5242d01b4a7172279856d19555aa9b51f22f84ae18acead2a358be28/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.13.15-PM.png" data-mid="206454874" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e791cdc5242d01b4a7172279856d19555aa9b51f22f84ae18acead2a358be28/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.13.15-PM.png" /> Exhibition webpage here WBUR, Newton-based artist puts feminist twist on “masterpieces”Brazilian American artist Dinorá Justice (b. 1969) uses a distinct visual vocabulary to examine intertwined histories of gender, landscape, and visual culture. In her paintings, feminine figures, lush natural environments, and rich marbled patterns subtly reframe art historical “masterpieces” with care and attention, recognizing their merits and, at the same time, rejecting their tendency to cast feminine figures as symbols of colonized territory for the male eye. Her sculptures riff on ancient figurines that once celebrated cycles of life. In her painting Portrait 51, after Delacroix’s “Women of Algiers” (2021), the artist unifies anonymous female subjects by placing them in interdependent dialogue with their outdoor setting. Linking women figures directly to the natural world is a common theme throughout Justice’s work. While this connection is often idealized and romanticized in art historical contexts, the reality is grimmer—violence against women and the environment is rampant. Luring viewers with vibrancy, Justice’s works awaken attention and shift perspectives not just on art history, but on how we care for one another and the world around us. https://michellemillarfisher.com/Tender-Loving-Care-1 Sat, 16 Apr 2022 17:26:36 +0000 Michelle Millar Fisher https://michellemillarfisher.com/Tender-Loving-Care-1 Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. July 22, 2023 - January 28, 2025 <img width="833" height="585" width_o="833" height_o="585" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/757c7fbac47f6e4f02b9cf11b334e23da0131d9293cb35ba76162372158dc2a9/Screen-Shot-2023-05-07-at-6.51.59-PM.png" data-mid="177975930" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/833/i/757c7fbac47f6e4f02b9cf11b334e23da0131d9293cb35ba76162372158dc2a9/Screen-Shot-2023-05-07-at-6.51.59-PM.png" /> <img width="1594" height="864" width_o="1594" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0d8cb8c389cb5fc34070f3a609189fe4b53b37c65e4bd184599dcdc4f7a665f/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.06.44-PM.png" data-mid="206454470" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0d8cb8c389cb5fc34070f3a609189fe4b53b37c65e4bd184599dcdc4f7a665f/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.06.44-PM.png" /> <img width="1262" height="930" width_o="1262" height_o="930" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f0b9bd8f3ad7b5307654bda1468cbaa95f3e7deb672e398558c184ec11d26c2/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.07.13-PM.png" data-mid="206454473" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f0b9bd8f3ad7b5307654bda1468cbaa95f3e7deb672e398558c184ec11d26c2/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.07.13-PM.png" /> <img width="1496" height="926" width_o="1496" height_o="926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f39e3d215755888ff1a1906a9fd8276fdc8af871a7c36244ceabb267bd6b468b/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.07.05-PM.png" data-mid="206454474" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f39e3d215755888ff1a1906a9fd8276fdc8af871a7c36244ceabb267bd6b468b/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.07.05-PM.png" /> <img width="1434" height="876" width_o="1434" height_o="876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f75221d8f055dfabd476c572cddb42f9c2c99c57916f2c868808b36ccfa99a6/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.06.58-PM.png" data-mid="206454475" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f75221d8f055dfabd476c572cddb42f9c2c99c57916f2c868808b36ccfa99a6/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.06.58-PM.png" /> <img width="1404" height="910" width_o="1404" height_o="910" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/732c35a79b64d33f6651d27ed3281d421c48ef2de01dff92692bd9d2efff8f94/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.07.40-PM.png" data-mid="206454471" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/732c35a79b64d33f6651d27ed3281d421c48ef2de01dff92692bd9d2efff8f94/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-8.07.40-PM.png" /> Exhibition webpage hereAt their core, creating and looking at works of art are acts of care, from the artist’s labor to the viewer’s contemplation and appreciation. Storage, conservation, and display are also ways of tending to art. This exhibition invites visitors to explore how contemporary artists trace and address concepts of care through their materials, subjects, ideas, and processes. More than 100 works from the MFA’s collection—including recent acquisitions and objects that have never been on view before—define, depict, and demonstrate many forms of care through five thematic groupings: threads, thresholds, rest, vibrant matter, and adoration. Gisela Charfauros McDaniel’s portrait of her mother, Tiningo’ si Sirena (2021), moves between intimacy and an attentiveness to larger concepts that are meaningful to the artist, like cultural inheritances and ecological interconnectivity. For his Sound Suit (2008), Nick Cave extended the lifespan of discarded objects by transforming them into a surreal, otherworldly costume that asserts the value of Black life. The intensive time and labor that goes into creating textiles and fiber art is evident in examples by Sheila Hicks, Howardena Pindell, and Jane Sauer. Through these works and many others visitors can consider how different forms of care may inspire new models for living and feeling—now and in the future. https://michellemillarfisher.com/DM Sun, 07 May 2023 22:51:18 +0000 Michelle Millar Fisher https://michellemillarfisher.com/DM Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births Mütter Museum, Philadelphia. May 8, 2021 – April 30, 2022 Center for Architecture and Design, Philadelphia. Sept 10 – Nov 14, 2021 Mass Art Museum (MAAM), Boston. June 11 – December 18, 2022 The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center, Seattle. February 14 - December 30, 2023 ArkDes, The Swedish National Museum of Architecture and Design, Stockholm, Sweden. September 27, 2024 – August 31, 2025 Fifth and sixth venues to be announced in late 2024 <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0bb38bdebf1e7fad0d75fc6cb42630015622e820cb4b819b96176dfdbc9bb1c/DM_Install.jpg" data-mid="177975979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0bb38bdebf1e7fad0d75fc6cb42630015622e820cb4b819b96176dfdbc9bb1c/DM_Install.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b082e3500880a8a2902bbff7fa943a734c2d743b81992485a8da87266931b3b/DM_Spread_1.jpg" data-mid="177975969" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b082e3500880a8a2902bbff7fa943a734c2d743b81992485a8da87266931b3b/DM_Spread_1.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="990" width_o="1600" height_o="990" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10b0253fc9d67955962106c754f75104dc869afad12420fef651a11db734fea1/2021_designing_motherhood_mutter_museum-w-1.jpeg" data-mid="177975976" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10b0253fc9d67955962106c754f75104dc869afad12420fef651a11db734fea1/2021_designing_motherhood_mutter_museum-w-1.jpeg" /> <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/999d41abbec2af79ff724ad233844b1acbbd2fd68405fdfc68439592dc6159dc/Designing-Motherhood_Installation-view-MAAM-2_Photo-by-Yukai-Chen-M23.jpeg" data-mid="177975996" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/999d41abbec2af79ff724ad233844b1acbbd2fd68405fdfc68439592dc6159dc/Designing-Motherhood_Installation-view-MAAM-2_Photo-by-Yukai-Chen-M23.jpeg" /> <img width="646" height="600" width_o="646" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a87671a500d98ef65caa8452f8689213371246b1fc77b345a8384273cdb7c8e/L7A0947_hero-646x600.png" data-mid="177975995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/646/i/5a87671a500d98ef65caa8452f8689213371246b1fc77b345a8384273cdb7c8e/L7A0947_hero-646x600.png" /> Selected press: The New York Times, Menstrual Cups in Museums? It’s Time.The Guardian, Designing Motherhood: project puts objects shaped by maternity in focusVogue, A New Exhibition in Philadelphia Examines the Hidden Histories of Reproduction The Washington Post, The Lily, Forceps, breast pumps, IUDs: This exhibit puts motherhood on displaySmithsonian Magazine,&nbsp;Designing Motherhood Fashion Studies Journal, book reviewDesigning Motherhood is an exhibition about how design has influenced human reproduction over the past 150 years to facilitate or prevent our arrival into the world. The exhibition showcases nearly 300 items, both historical and contemporary, involved in the arc of human reproduction, ranging from menstrual cups, breast pumps, and baby monitors to medical tools and maternity clothing. It explores objects and processes through a variety of fields: art, photography, product design, posters, advertisements, fashion, and architecture, with a selection emerging from various cultural and geographical backgrounds. While being born is a universal human experience, the designs that shape it are not. Designing Motherhood invites you to consider why and how we have developed designs to facilitate reproductive health, and to ponder the political, economic, and social implications of how we medicalize reproduction. https://michellemillarfisher.com/Maria-Lassnig Sun, 30 Oct 2022 15:02:01 +0000 Michelle Millar Fisher https://michellemillarfisher.com/Maria-Lassnig Body Awareness: Maria Lassnig’s Experimental Films Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. October 15, 2022 – April 2, 2023 <img width="1149" height="865" width_o="1149" height_o="865" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34d20f3450f4ddb2c5e77007b1ef04c9418692734f1a59fbd4df5462990e4f3f/IMG_0898.PNG" data-mid="157387948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34d20f3450f4ddb2c5e77007b1ef04c9418692734f1a59fbd4df5462990e4f3f/IMG_0898.PNG" /> <img width="1138" height="948" width_o="1138" height_o="948" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9be3e775dca1ad404f8a40625bf8c82b9a6613f536ea295dd9a745814e054855/IMG_0900.PNG" data-mid="157387950" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9be3e775dca1ad404f8a40625bf8c82b9a6613f536ea295dd9a745814e054855/IMG_0900.PNG" /> <img width="1141" height="911" width_o="1141" height_o="911" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd68e52995828b5e4edf937f29c58939d9b59cdff132ff05116b7bc78060a8d9/IMG_0899.PNG" data-mid="157387949" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd68e52995828b5e4edf937f29c58939d9b59cdff132ff05116b7bc78060a8d9/IMG_0899.PNG" /> <img width="1136" height="1140" width_o="1136" height_o="1140" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5e674dae338b90422fd2988a0fdbcae0ea777d1cc5140e1d7b62325b87848e4/IMG_0902.PNG" data-mid="157387952" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5e674dae338b90422fd2988a0fdbcae0ea777d1cc5140e1d7b62325b87848e4/IMG_0902.PNG" /> <img width="1140" height="1141" width_o="1140" height_o="1141" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61c013ae994649cbb5db744e619bae57636ae6422ab3e0a91a06d9f26d889aca/IMG_0901.PNG" data-mid="157387951" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61c013ae994649cbb5db744e619bae57636ae6422ab3e0a91a06d9f26d889aca/IMG_0901.PNG" /> <img width="1142" height="1138" width_o="1142" height_o="1138" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85e314383de91b7b067cda1badf100df447169115f7cfdb948e0b8ab3c5a19de/IMG_0903.PNG" data-mid="157387953" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85e314383de91b7b067cda1badf100df447169115f7cfdb948e0b8ab3c5a19de/IMG_0903.PNG" /> <img width="668" height="621" width_o="668" height_o="621" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff9940c81a8cb844ed033f815f380cbd8793c3e2b425266487b4c4c043e07923/Screen-Shot-2022-10-30-at-11.05.57-AM.png" data-mid="157387967" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/668/i/ff9940c81a8cb844ed033f815f380cbd8793c3e2b425266487b4c4c043e07923/Screen-Shot-2022-10-30-at-11.05.57-AM.png" /> Celebrating Maria Lassnig on Film (online here) Late Nite with Maria LassnigAlthough best known as a painter, Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) began to experiment with film in 1970. From that point on, she created animations using felt-tip pen drawings, stencils, spray paint, and collaged magazine cutouts as well as live-action scenes featuring protagonists and settings drawn from friends and everyday encounters. In one way or another, all of Lassnig’s films investigate what the artist termed “body awareness,” an ambitious artistic desire to express the complex and often slippery subjective qualities of internal sensory experience and self-perception. This exhibition celebrates Lassnig’s pioneering work on film, featuring 16 pieces that explore physical sensation, autobiography, friendship, and New York City, where the artist lived in the 1970s. Reproductions of ephemera—texts and images from the Maria Lassnig Foundation in Vienna, Austria—give visitors a glimpse into the artist’s practice and document the evolution of her ideas. With candid and unsparing interrogations of identity that eschew the contemporary fascination with spectacular imagery, Lassnig’s films remain strongly relevant to—and an antidotal critique of—art and life today. https://michellemillarfisher.com/Helina-Metaferia Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:44:07 +0000 Michelle Millar Fisher https://michellemillarfisher.com/Helina-Metaferia Helina Metaferia: Generations Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. November 6, 2021 – April 11, 2022 <img width="1066" height="600" width_o="1066" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bba4faa7926380c266392cbde7a91040e2fb221be012ae9f1276a7b35e8273be/hm1.jpeg" data-mid="139934726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bba4faa7926380c266392cbde7a91040e2fb221be012ae9f1276a7b35e8273be/hm1.jpeg" /> <img width="1066" height="600" width_o="1066" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96c89a4b80869ac2ad705ed56d2c314756212cfeba897ef32bf39c8924ad50cc/HM2.jpeg" data-mid="139934727" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96c89a4b80869ac2ad705ed56d2c314756212cfeba897ef32bf39c8924ad50cc/HM2.jpeg" /> <img width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81d198570e10f238653e71a02f1b2959b969ea4ad9ee6ab7258bc0db83a03ff1/HM3.jpeg" data-mid="139934728" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/81d198570e10f238653e71a02f1b2959b969ea4ad9ee6ab7258bc0db83a03ff1/HM3.jpeg" /> <img width="1024" height="785" width_o="1024" height_o="785" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e744bd6e09eb51dbdb17bc6bf798c79a613674f867d969602620aa3beb14628/hm4.jpeg" data-mid="139934729" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e744bd6e09eb51dbdb17bc6bf798c79a613674f867d969602620aa3beb14628/hm4.jpeg" /> <img width="1438" height="2188" width_o="1438" height_o="2188" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d23c81ba55a051e61cd0e398ffbba11920587984596ec6e803a64370e18502d/generations_H.-Metaferia_cover_black.jpg" data-mid="139955156" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d23c81ba55a051e61cd0e398ffbba11920587984596ec6e803a64370e18502d/generations_H.-Metaferia_cover_black.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6c525b002101b0ba901b6390591a56b9a387759d441e9fae123f52f8bd9d498/IMG_3430.JPG" data-mid="139955227" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6c525b002101b0ba901b6390591a56b9a387759d441e9fae123f52f8bd9d498/IMG_3430.JPG" /> Selected press:Artsy, Helina Metaferia Honors the Activist Legacies of Black Women across Collage and Performance Surface,&nbsp;A Regal Headdress Comes Alive With Relics of BIPOC Activism Interior Design,&nbsp;Artist Helina Metaferia Celebrates Black Women Activists in Two Solo Shows Boston Globe, In Helina Metaferia’s show at the MFA, an ‘army of women’ wear history on their headsThe family and community that precede us shape how we see the world today. From pride in identity to the effects of suffering across generations and the desire to imagine better futures, how do we process the memories and experiences we inherit? Centering women of color as protagonists, “Helina Metaferia: Generations” uses collage, video, and installation to explore how inherited trauma informs present-day experiences. Metaferia mines oral histories and institutional archives of Black liberation ephemera to point toward ways in which activists—especially women of color—can profoundly influence the future, and always have. She respectfully involves these communities as collaborators in her art-making practice, asking them to share their “everyday revolutions”—the ways they navigate and negotiate a world that tries to put barriers in their way. Their responses manifest in different media, including collage and video, that explore how we carry on the legacies of our elders, the kinship we find in our contemporaries, and the many ways these relationships inform and shape our worlds. https://michellemillarfisher.com/BBiP Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:28:49 +0000 Michelle Millar Fisher https://michellemillarfisher.com/BBiP Black Power in PrintMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston. Online (here), debuted fall 2021 <img width="757" height="665" width_o="757" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a93d9cb824f32e9921017243fd97947eb6b5eb4942f94544f34ad9db141a762f/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.31.57-PM.png" data-mid="139949953" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/757/i/a93d9cb824f32e9921017243fd97947eb6b5eb4942f94544f34ad9db141a762f/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-1.31.57-PM.png" /> <img width="801" height="601" width_o="801" height_o="601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6207e489de087826191ce2e20da6b35808f2e0d65429229363a984b93e2d2c9/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-2.43.21-PM.png" data-mid="139955347" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/801/i/a6207e489de087826191ce2e20da6b35808f2e0d65429229363a984b93e2d2c9/Screen-Shot-2022-04-18-at-2.43.21-PM.png" /> Selected press: Boston Globe, At the MFA, a door opens to the history of Black art in BostonIn April 2021, MFA staff recovered a document long overlooked in the Museum’s archives: “A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.” Written in 1970 by Boston-based artist, muralist, and community organizer Dana C. Chandler Jr. (b. 1941), the manifesto challenges the MFA (and, by inference, similar institutions) to represent Black artists in their collections and exhibitions, and to financially support Black self-determination in the arts. Chandler’s rallying cry helped push the MFA to stage the exhibition “Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston” in spring 1970. In 2020—50 years after that exhibition—the MFA acquired Fred Hampton’s Door 2, the second and only surviving version of Chandler’s seminal painting, for its permanent collection.&nbsp; This online project—a collaboration between the MFA and MoMA—acknowledges the belated institutional recognition of foundational documents and artworks as part of a broader examination of the Black Power movement’s legacy in visual culture.&nbsp; https://michellemillarfisher.com/New-Light Sat, 16 Apr 2022 17:35:23 +0000 Michelle Millar Fisher https://michellemillarfisher.com/New-Light New Light: Encounters and Connections Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. July 3, 2021 – August 22, 2022 <img width="635" height="605" width_o="635" height_o="605" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f41ac71d27c09275972ff4f15997ff59ab84f79a072ee6dd4006c5f99cca059/newlight.png" data-mid="139808717" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/635/i/1f41ac71d27c09275972ff4f15997ff59ab84f79a072ee6dd4006c5f99cca059/newlight.png" /> <img width="590" height="394" width_o="590" height_o="394" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0326b54920b3137e6cbdea0fbf60959296a60dbe19fb45ec3c09d1ffbecf64aa/newlight2.png" data-mid="139808718" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/590/i/0326b54920b3137e6cbdea0fbf60959296a60dbe19fb45ec3c09d1ffbecf64aa/newlight2.png" /> <img width="2560" height="1920" width_o="2560" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6960632d450379105fe27a06e1dcafe737de3bee6274e0993fd0f1325d794353/Snapshots-Wylie-Jackson-scaled.jpeg" data-mid="139955514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6960632d450379105fe27a06e1dcafe737de3bee6274e0993fd0f1325d794353/Snapshots-Wylie-Jackson-scaled.jpeg" /> <img width="2316" height="2895" width_o="2316" height_o="2895" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bc501ba794fdc007561e68cacda80b7dedab0c59a2aff504d85eb90a3726b6b/E_UkAwaWEAMVzbc.jpeg" data-mid="139955513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bc501ba794fdc007561e68cacda80b7dedab0c59a2aff504d85eb90a3726b6b/E_UkAwaWEAMVzbc.jpeg" /> Selected press: Boston Globe, At the MFA, a door opens to the history of Black art in BostonSpanning cultures and geographies, and sometimes millennia too, “New Light: Encounters and Connections” presents more than 60 works of art from across the MFA’s collection, many of which are on view for the first time. The exhibition is organized into 21 “conversations”—in each, a contemporary piece that has recently joined the collection is juxtaposed with one or two rarely seen objects acquired earlier in the Museum’s history that range from an ancient Egyptian carving of a princess to experimental miniature vases made by French ceramicist Auguste Delaherche. Placed in dialogue, these objects, old and new, invite visitors to explore an array of subjects.&nbsp; Together, these conversations reveal the potential of every addition to the collection to spark unexpected connections and new narratives. https://michellemillarfisher.com/Samantha-Nye Sat, 16 Apr 2022 17:27:48 +0000 Michelle Millar Fisher https://michellemillarfisher.com/Samantha-Nye Samantha Nye: My Heart’s In A Whirl Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. June 12 – Oct 31, 2021 <img width="2560" height="1792" width_o="2560" height_o="1792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de6f29a8ff25820d7de0d0bae602f3488d57dbe973e5809dbf2a21c9569c7de4/B----pic-of-Sam-s-show-at-MFA-Boston.jpeg" data-mid="139955401" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de6f29a8ff25820d7de0d0bae602f3488d57dbe973e5809dbf2a21c9569c7de4/B----pic-of-Sam-s-show-at-MFA-Boston.jpeg" /> <img width="1115" height="1600" width_o="1115" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e802eeed84bfd36f779a37c1b1424f72bedc24495ffc8a33438bf9a888ea19e/SamNye2.jpeg" data-mid="139808703" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e802eeed84bfd36f779a37c1b1424f72bedc24495ffc8a33438bf9a888ea19e/SamNye2.jpeg" /> <img width="1187" height="1600" width_o="1187" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/695492234611712cbaa061e24c2af0ce73fd676bed91f04f6e3a9d9708abab7a/SamNye.jpeg" data-mid="139808704" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/695492234611712cbaa061e24c2af0ce73fd676bed91f04f6e3a9d9708abab7a/SamNye.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bab48c6c0e47ab0b3ad5f537e81d1d4dcaae7de096e35795a292fd3483fa0176/img_2050-1.jpeg" data-mid="139955395" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bab48c6c0e47ab0b3ad5f537e81d1d4dcaae7de096e35795a292fd3483fa0176/img_2050-1.jpeg" /> Selected press: Brooklyn Rail, My Heart’s In A Whirl WBUR, 8 Art Exhibits to Explore this Summer BOMB Magazine, All Pleasures FulfilledAcross artistic mediums, Samantha Nye interrogates the power, beauty, and occasional humor she sees in consensual sexual encounters between older people—a population often deemed beyond desire. In “Samantha Nye: My Heart’s in a Whirl,” the artist turns her focus to video, recreating Scopitone classics from the 1950s and ’60s. A visual component of Scopitone jukeboxes, these 16 mm film reels were an early form of music video and a precursor to MTV, YouTube, and TikTok. Many featured a white male pop star or band surrounded by scantily clad women, or female singers wiggling suggestively. These videos were groundbreaking technology and a novel form of entertainment, but they also perpetuated stereotypes. Nye rejects the original Scopitone videos and their reductive representations of gender, class, and race, reframing them shot for shot with queer elders—people she meets during her research—and even her own mother and grandmother. The reimagined films discard ageist and ableist definitions of sexuality and erotic pleasure, as well as homogenous and oppressive understandings of desire and domesticity. Instead, Nye offers intergenerational fantasies with an expanded vision of love, sex, agency, and belonging. https://michellemillarfisher.com/craft-schools Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:27:04 +0000 Michelle Millar Fisher https://michellemillarfisher.com/craft-schools Craft School: Art and the Ethos of Care Shelter in Place Gallery, Boston. July 20 – 26, 2020 <img width="750" height="563" width_o="750" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/924f96ed04f8c9016e74717dcf9cd3ee29910faf9730769d6c6b4c4f9a36a7c2/4_Craft-School.jpeg" data-mid="139954384" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/924f96ed04f8c9016e74717dcf9cd3ee29910faf9730769d6c6b4c4f9a36a7c2/4_Craft-School.jpeg" /> <img width="500" height="667" width_o="500" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb25f9d5123f9231b20489a15c56ccee3bb85d28616ef5ea11bc5a33db03d378/Print-Sale_Pic-for-Insta_Poster-in-Citrine-1.jpeg" data-mid="139954515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/bb25f9d5123f9231b20489a15c56ccee3bb85d28616ef5ea11bc5a33db03d378/Print-Sale_Pic-for-Insta_Poster-in-Citrine-1.jpeg" /> <img width="300" height="400" width_o="300" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06b37e3f511f8ab8913794ec833752af51f39f7b14a5040ca4438991ac3c0ca7/4_Craft-School4.jpeg" data-mid="139954387" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/06b37e3f511f8ab8913794ec833752af51f39f7b14a5040ca4438991ac3c0ca7/4_Craft-School4.jpeg" /> <img width="750" height="563" width_o="750" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44782ee6b0e1f079f940a69ca4a62f53870709df6f576b16b0473e1681c3a4a3/4_Craft-School3.jpeg" data-mid="139954386" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/44782ee6b0e1f079f940a69ca4a62f53870709df6f576b16b0473e1681c3a4a3/4_Craft-School3.jpeg" /> <img width="300" height="400" width_o="300" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00fe53705a90059ec7bb61a10e0604f4292e8243a947d295e1246a3bb8bf4c0c/4_Craft-School2.jpeg" data-mid="139954385" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/00fe53705a90059ec7bb61a10e0604f4292e8243a947d295e1246a3bb8bf4c0c/4_Craft-School2.jpeg" /> Selected press: WBUR,&nbsp;New Gallery Offers Artists Opportunity To Show Work During Pandemic — In Scaled-Down Form