Cake and Peaches
Cake and Peaches was purchased by the Union League Club in 1986 and is a still life which depicts cake and peaches along with other kitchen and dining items on a tablecloth. It differs from the majority of Jane Fisher’s online gallery which shows she paints mostly figures that she says are "ordinary, identifiable people in familiar settings." Some of the subjects include Russian oligarchs, divers mid-air, and ranchers showing prized cows and horses. There are only several other still life paintings shown. Fisher says that "the ideas for my paintings emerge as emotions. My task is to turn those emotions into images. My use of paint is at once loose and precise so as to be visually satisfying without intruding upon the image. The medium and surface work to convey a sense that what is on display is frozen in significance. The element of craft implies authorship but the lack of stylization suggests they are neutral documents. As the artist, my role is to step back to let the painting take the stage and let the viewer have the experience."
Jane Fisher has shown work in public since 1984 and is based in Oakland, California. A Professor of Art at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA, she received her BFA from Ohio University and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from The Art Institute of Chicago.
A previous show in San Francisco in 2018 and was titled "I’ll Take You There," which featured work based on her travels to Vietnam and the coast town of Nha Trang, which has evolved into a premiere Russian tourist destination. The juxtaposition of these two cultures meeting on a beach, as seen by an American, was the focus of this show. Jane Fisher's current show, titled VICTORIOUS (August - September 2024) at the Gearbox Gallery in Oakland, depicting masculinity in the moment of triumph. Fisher has a long history of exploring human beings in the performance of roles that capture her interest, body builders, dictators, their wives, stock show contestants, security guards, tourists, cheerleaders and athletes. Here, we see a parade of the victorious from many fields of athletic endeavor such as jiu jistsu, weightlifting, diving and wrestling.
