Carey Fisher Exhibition
Featuring artwork by artists Beau Carey & Ian Fisher. On display November 11, 2022 - January 8, 2023. Curated by Cortney Lane Stell.
About Carey Fisher
Carey Fisher is a two-person exhibition featuring new paintings by RedLine resident alumni Beau Carey and Ian Fisher.
Building off of the long history of landscape painting, the work of Carey and Fisher marks a remarkable transformation due to our changing relationship with the natural world and the issue of climate change.
In the light of this effectual relationship, both Carey and Fisher’s paintings remind us equally of the environment, the supple qualities of paint, and the lens of our own perspectives.
This exhibition marks the first of several exhibitions that celebrate RedLine’s 15th year anniversary. It features entirely new works created this year — almost all of them explicitly for this exhibition.
The show will feel meditative in tone, and works will be hung sparsely to allow for reflection and digestion.
The Denver Post Highlights “Carey Fisher” Exhibition
Arts writer Ray Mark Rinaldi of The Denver Post highlighted the Carey Fisher exhibition.
About Beau Carey
Beau Carey (American, b. 1980) is a landscape painter based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He paints each invented landscape from memory, plein-air studies, and photographs.
Carey has developed a graphic and gestural vocabulary that expands the traditional genre that he works within.
An extensive traveler to remote areas of the world to paint, he produces works that are simultaneously personal and mythological, allowing perception, image, and inner visions to erupt from his intimate, abstract interpretations of the natural world.
He has worked in the Arctic Circle in Norway, on Rabbit Island in Lake Superior, and was the first wintertime artist resident in Denali National Park. His recent paintings comprise specific geographies, repeated, layered, and compressed into single compositions.
His work has been featured in Create! Magazine, the Denver Post, Blouin Artinfo, Artsy, artnet, Sotheby’s online magazine, alibi.com, and New American Paintings.
Carey is currently represented by Gallery Elle in Switzerland, Visions West Contemporary in the American West, and Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Artist Beau Carey
“By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern landscapes came to be spatially constructed.
Through a combination of on-site field studies and larger studio pieces I make bodies of work that reflect the individual characteristics of a specific place while retaining a critical awareness of the landscape genre.
This practice, while fully absorbed into the cliché of modern landscape painting, is not innocuous. It is rooted in a history of globalism and environmental dominance.
Through my work I explore this spatial language at times allowing individual works to teeter into abstraction. The works in Rise look specifically at how we will navigate and view a rapidly changing physical world.”
About Ian Fisher
Ian Fisher (Canadian, b. 1984), is a painter who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Fisher’s painting practice is rooted in his study of clouds, the sky, and the medium of oil paint.
In his depictions of clouds, Fisher transcends the boundaries of both hyper realism and modern abstraction creating works that stir feelings of wonder and astonishment experienced in the presence of something familiar, yet difficult to grasp.
Set within the boundless constraint of the sky, the works evoke reflection on a range of subjects including beauty, fantasy, idealism, and our relationship with the natural world. Notable exhibitions include those with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the New Mexico Museum of Art, The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. His work is in both private and public collections, and he is represented by Elle Gallery in Switzerland.
About Curator Cortney Lane Stell
Carey Fisher opening reception. Photo credit Adrienne Kendall
Cortney Lane Stell is an independent curator and the Executive Director + Chief Curator of Black Cube, a nomadic contemporary art museum based in Denver, Colorado. Stell is currently serving her second term on Denver’s Commission on Cultural Affairs, as appointed by the mayor. She has held independent curatorial practice since 2006, which has included curating numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally for museums, university galleries, biennials and art events.
Stemming from a philosophical interest in art as communication, Stell has organized exhibitions that focus on artworks experimental in both conceptual and material nature, including exhibitions with artists such as Liam Gillick, Cyprien Gaillard, Daniel Arsham, and Shirley Tse.
In her role as the Executive Director + Chief Curator of Black Cube she has curated and produced dozens of site-specific artworks including works by SANGREE, Adriana Corral, Marguerite Humeau, and Jennifer Ling Datchuk—to name a few. Stell holds a MA from the European Graduate School in Switzerland where she is also a PhD candidate in Media Communications.
