For her second solo show in New York, Kim Fisher will present eight new large-scale abstract paintings inspired by the phases - the waxing and waning - of the moon. Fisher’s paintings begin as collage studies that incorporate a diverse range of printed paper elements. These studies are then translated into layered, complex, and sometimes photorealistic oil paintings made through rigorous systems of paint application. Her practice is highly formal, her use of subject matter and technique are both innovative and remarkably unexpected.
Kim Fisher received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 1998, and her BFA from the University of California in 1996, both in Los Angeles. She has had solo exhibitions at China Art Objects, Los Angeles; John Connelly Presents, New York; Shane Campbell, Chicago, and the Modern Institute, Glasgow. Fisher exhibits internationally and participated in the 2004 Whitney Biennial at The Whitney Museum of American Art and the 2004 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California.

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In Elad Lassry’s untitled super 16mm film, New York City Ballet dancers Megan LeCrone and Ask La Cour perform the last minute of the seminal choreography by George Balanchine for the pas de deux from Agon (1957). The dancers are filmed from a pre-determined positioning of the camera based upon Doris Humphrey's diagram from her 1958 book "The Art of Making Dances" in which she breaks the dance stage into potential relative strength points. In referencing the foundation of Structuralist film, histories of dance on film, and the tension between neo classicism and modernism, the artist asks the audience to revisit cultural production from the perspective of a collaboration that has never happened.
Israeli-born, Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry received a BFA in both Film and Studio Art from the California Institute of the Arts in 2003, and received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Southern
California in 2007. His first solo exhibition was at Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles in 2007. His work is included in public collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Israel Museum. This fall he will participate in the 2008 California Biennial.