Disjecta Presents
The Game
An Exhibition by Anna Fidler

November 14 – December 20th 2009
Happy Hour with artists Anna Fidler & David Stein
Every Friday 4-7 PM thru December 18th
Gallery Hours: Fri-Sun 12-5 pm and by appointment

Amped up for an exciting Blazers' season? See them in a whole new light -- as objets d'art -- at Disjecta on November 14th! Plus, shoot hoops with artist Anna Fidler in the gallery. Blazers vs. Bobcats on the big screen.

The Game, a new series of vibrant basketball scenes inspired by the Portland Trail Blazers, highlights artist Anna Fidler at her creative peak. Driven by her passion for basketball, she has assembled large-scale, labor-intensive works rendered in glittery mica-enriched acrylic washes and deftly applied pastels, colored pencils and airbrush.

As an artist, Fidler has always been interested in energy. "Energy has been the overarching theme in my work for the past ten years referencing topics such as photosynthesis, electricity, binaural rhythm patterns and consequential lucid dreams." Accordingly, each piece captures the raw and uninhibited spirit of the game and exudes energy through pulsating color, unconventional shapes and the beautiful combination of paint and pencil for which Fidler is known. It also tops the charts as the largest work she has ever produced.

Her fascination with the mythic-fantastic surfaces in this new body of work as well. While these monumental pieces emphasize the energy of the game, they also explore the hero status and god-like worship bestowed upon these athletes.turning a critical eye toward such unabashed fanaticism. This adroit social commentary is inspired by historical painters like Jacques-Louis David and takes formal cues from Monet, essentially turning his famous rendering of haystacks in the countryside into in the huddled stance of a team. The style, though, is uniquely Fidler.

More About the Artist:

Anna Fidler lives in Portland, OR. A multi-disciplinary artist, she works in the media of painting, film, and music. Her work depicts invented landscapes, mythical happenings, and unseen energy in the universe. In ArtWeek Prudence Roberts describes her paintings as “giving one the sensation of peering into a glittering rock cavern.” She has exhibited with numerous galleries and institutions including: Little Cakes, New York, New York; the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, Oregon; Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington; HaNNa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois; Japan Society, New York, New York; High Desert Test Sites. Joshua Tree, California. Her work has been written about in publications such as the Washington Post, ArtWeek, Art Ltd, and the Wall Street Journal.