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Photo: Jamie Borschuk<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”JON FISCHER” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1760507725073{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]\n

VISUAL ARTIST<\/span>
\njon at feather2pixels.com<\/span><\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

Born in Newport Beach, CA, USA, 1979
\nM.S. Mechanical Engineering, U.C.Berkeley
\nB.A. History & Philosphy of Science, U. Pittsburgh
\nB.S. Bioengineering, U Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

I am an interdisciplinary artist with a practice rooted in printmaking. Raised in Pennsylvania by parents who were Jewish refugees from Morocco and Poland, I earned degrees in engineering and philosophy of science before relocating to the West Coast for the adult portion of my life. In California I studied fabrication at the Exploratorium<\/a> and learned screen printing at CELLspace, the celebrated San Francisco arts warehouse. I\u2019ve operated a studio in San Francisco since 2005, using my background in engineering and drawing to grow a practice that combines printmaking, technology, and fabrication. Since 2006, I\u2019ve worked as a professor of engineering at CSU Maritime Academy, the only maritime academy on the West Coast.<\/p>\n

Through the particular lens of the West Coast, I create work using screen printing, sound, video, and installation. Having lived and worked in San Francisco for twenty years, I have often made pieces that directly address local knowledge of the Bay Area–but recently I\u2019ve expanded my practice to consider topographically related areas such as Humboldt Bay, the Middle East, and Crete.<\/p>\n

Most of my recent work is collaborative. Turntable Drawings<\/a>, my ongoing project with composer Danny Clay based on a growing collection of hand molded records, has been presented in conjunction with over twenty guest artists since 2006.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”3918″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_row_inner content_placement=”middle” el_class=”matches1″][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”3503″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”3516″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”3524″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_text_separator title=”Artist Statement” el_id=”statment”][vc_column_text]\n

In the broadest strokes, my work is fueled by compulsion to make stuff and a mission to understand and disseminate local knowledge — a concept embodied by the Jewish metaphor of HaMakom1<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/sup> (\u05d4\u05de\u05e7\u05d5\u05dd \/\u201dThe Place\u201d). Because I believe all beauty is at some scale a strong form of local knowledge, I regard the inquiry into the narrow and specific as a template to think about the universal and the common. I conduct field research from locations throughout the Bay Area counties and beyond, and collect high definition video, cartographic material, and audio recordings that become the raw material for print-based series on paper, wood, and canvas, films, and installation.<\/p>\n

Printmaking is the ideal medium for me \u2014 it works to my strengths while forcing me to grow as an artist. With a background in engineering, I am in my comfort zone solving technical problems, fabricating structures, and composing designs. But the purpose of fine art printmaking is not perfection nor accuracy, despite being based on technologies of mass reproduction. Most of my work is produced in multiples with an emphasis on variation, a practice intended to generate repeating units that are exhibited together in flexible patterns and configurations.<\/p>\n

Over the years, the way I use printmaking has become more entwined with the meaning of the imprinting process itself, and I\u2019ve become interested in expanding the possibility of physical prints into the third and fourth dimensions. Turntable Drawings<\/a><\/strong>, my ongoing collaboration with composer Danny Clay, is based on a growing collection of playable, hand molded records<\/a> (sound prints). Since 2016, the project has been presented in conjunction with over twenty guest artists in many interdisciplinary forms. In 2019 Turntable Drawings worked with curators to present a program<\/a> at the de Young Museum in which we staged day-long interventions in four galleries using sound, installation, and looping performances by live musicians.2<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

In addition to my collaborations and my formal print-based work, I have always maintained an active practice creating editions<\/a> of handmade books, zines, newspapers, and posters. For me, this is an important part of keeping part of my work accessible, low cost, and (ideally) mailable.<\/p>\n

1. [ This <\/a>newspaper & audio work provide a suitable translation in under thirty minutes & 12 pgs ]\u21a9<\/a><\/sup><\/span>
\n2. [ Program here <\/a>]<\/span>\u21a9<\/span><\/a><\/sup>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”3522″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_text_separator title=”Tags”][vc_column_text]\n

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#field guide<\/a> Handy local knowledge.
\n#color calibration<\/a> Base units: cyan, magenta, yellow.
\n#audio calibration<\/a> Vibrations, textures, noise, music.
\n#topographic reference<\/a> Landscapes & memory maps.
\n\u05d4\u05de\u05e7\u05d5\u05dd#<\/a> Useful Jewish metaphor. “The Place.” A space that is capable of containing something else. Everything is contained within \u05d4\u05de\u05e7\u05d5\u05dd, while \u05d4\u05de\u05e7\u05d5\u05dd is contained in nothing.<\/div>\n
#temporary spaces<\/a> These places will be gone soon.
\n#turntable drawings<\/a> Based on a growing catalog of hand molded, playable records.
\n#calendars and timestamps<\/a> Time, cycles, entropy.
\n#language studies<\/a> Words, narrative, metaphor, semantics, play.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1576699753198{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”3516″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_text_separator title=”Collaborators (Past & Present)” el_id=”collabs”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

Adrienne Skye Roberts (Curator, Artist | USA)
\nAlex Ness (Composer | USA)
\nAlex Spoto (Curator & Musician | USA)
\nAmy Foote<\/a> (Performance Artist | USA)
\nAngie Crabtree<\/a> (Artist | USA)
\nBrent Miller<\/a> (Composer | USA)
\nChristian Kobi<\/a> (Viola | Switzerland)
\nCrystal Pascucci<\/a> (Cello | USA)
\nDanny Clay<\/a> (Composer | USA)
\nDina Maccabee<\/a> (Musician\/Viola | USA)
\nDennis Aman<\/a> (Composer | USA)
\nEmil Margolis<\/a> (Composer | USA)
\nEric Barreto <\/a> (Saxophone | USA)
\nEric Andrew Kuhn <\/a> (Musician | USA)
\nEric Theise<\/a> (Voice | USA)
\nErin Bregman<\/a> (Writer | USA)
\nFrantz Loriot<\/a> (Viola | Switzerland)
\nGiacomo Fiore<\/a> (Guitar | USA & Italy)
\nGreg Gorlen<\/a> (Tape Musician | USA)
\nJeff Denson<\/a> (Bass | USA)
\nJessie Nucho<\/a> (Flute | USA)
\nJocelyn Lawrence (Voice | USA)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n

Joe Kuta (Voice | USA)
\nJonathan Sutton<\/a> (Chef | USA)
\nKristin Roeder \/ Cherry Ghost (Artist & Educator | USA)
\nMarc Weidenbaum<\/a> (Writer & Curator | USA)
\nDisquiet Junto<\/a> (Musicians | International)
\nJoseph Colombo<\/a> (Composer | USA)
\nThe Living Earth Show<\/a> (Chamber Music Ensemble | USA)
\nMario Godoy<\/a> (Saxophone | USA)
\nMichael Hernandez<\/a> (Saxophone | USA)
\nMichael Mortarotti<\/a> (Saxophone | USA)
\nNomad Session<\/a> (Wind Ensemble | USA)
\nNowell Valeri \/ Rivelan<\/a> (Musician | USA)
\nRae Diamond<\/a> (Voice | USA)
\nRhiannon Evans MacFadyen<\/a> (Curator | USA)
\nRoy Doughty<\/a> (Poet | USA)
\nMichael Wayne Turner III<\/a> (Poet | USA)
\nSuki O’Kane<\/a> (Precussion | USA)
\nTheresa Wong<\/a> (Cello | USA)
\nYael Kisel (Scientist, Illustrator | USA)
\nzMom (Artist | USA)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Did I miss you? Let me know.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”Social Media Networks” el_id=”social-media”][vc_column_text]\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”C.V.”][vc_column_text]Download Jon Fischer CV here><\/span><\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Jon Fischer Nov 2025 CV<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”3520″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

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Jon Fischer
\nBorn in Newport Beach, CA, USA, 1979
\nM.S. Mechanical Engineering U.C.Berkeley<\/p>\n

JON FISCHER<\/strong> was raised in Pennsylvania by Israeli parents from Morocco and France. Following an early move to the East Coast, he grew up in the suburbs of Boston and Philly. He earned degrees in bio-engineering and philosophy of science before his permanent return to California, where he studied fabrication at the Exploratorium<\/a> and learned to screen print with a garden hose and a sixty-watt light bulb at CELLspace, the legendary San Francisco arts warehouse (R.I.P.)<\/p>\n

He opened his first screen print studio in 2008, developing a technique that combines painting, photography, and silkscreen. Since then his practice has expanded to incorporate printmaking through sculpture, sound, & video. His work has been exhibited in venues across the country including San Francisco City Hall, Vanderbilt University, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, White Stone Gallery in Philadelphia, and the de Young museum in San Francisco. He is currently an Associate Professor of Marine Engineering Technology at the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\n

Loops, natural cycles, and sequences are both the subject and the physical form of my artwork. For me, new work is always produced in multiples with an emphasis on variation, a practice intended to generate repeating units that can be curated together in ambitious, flexible patterns and grids. Some series contain two large variations, others contain lots of small ones. Sometimes variation is manifested in the form of materials\u2013from wood to canvas, from film to light. Many different shows are possible starting from the same pieces. Created to imitate interconnected variations of nature such as dusk and dawn, the passing of the seasons, and the orbit of the planets, my work asks the question: how is a physical imprint like our experience of time?<\/p>\n

MY RECENT WORK invokes different forms of physical imprints to manifest the Jewish concept of HaMakom (\u201cthe place\u201d\/ \u05d4\u05de\u05e7\u05d5\u05dd ). Consisting of 2D mixed media works, sonic installation, and performance, this growing collection uses local knowledge of Northern California as raw material that puts the audience in direct contact with one of the most compelling concepts of Jewish culture.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”3514″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_text_separator title=”Process” el_id=”process”][vc_column_text]\n

My process removes information from images and reconstructs them with entirely new physical properties using screen printing. My work begins with images selected from sources with a wide variety of purposes such as real time weather cams, old programming punchcards, and specimen photos of personal objects. Combining elements of printmaking, painting, and photography, I use process as a force of nature, breaking down, reconstituting, and repeating pictures, artifacts, and curiosities from many points along the course of a history that is definitely personal and possibly infinite.<\/p>\n

In the last three years my solo practice has expanded to include collaborations with musicians and performers, including Turntable Drawings<\/a>, an ongoing project with composer Danny Clay<\/a> based on a growing collection of hand-molded, playable records. Since 2016, this project has been presented in conjunction with over twenty guest artists in many interdisciplinary forms including immersive installations, scored musical compositions, visual art exhibitions, and interactive workshops.<\/p>\n

Having created a process to imprint playable sound-prints, I am gloriously free to expand the formal concepts of printmaking into experiences and environments using installation, sound, and video. Everything I make uses loops as raw material to explore the connections between physical imprints, music, and beauty.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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