Synthesis

PHOTOGRAPHY AND
NEW MEDIA IN ART

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Antonia Hirsch &
Lynne Marsh
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SYNTHESIS

~ Alex Fischer's digital explorations and
expanded painting

Alex Fischer works with other people's images. Fischer uses Adobe
Photoshop, Corel Painter and a Wacom tablet to turn donated images by
colleagues and classmates into a mashup of styles and mediums that is
purely his own. The title of each piece refers to the artist whose work
Fischer has sampled, Executed during the spring of 2009, Fischer's artist
project Synthesis is an immersion into the effect of digital information
and continues his experimental tendencies of post-abstract expression-
ism and expanded painting. His work explores the relationship between
contemporary art and the context of art production within a university
visual arts program.

Setting up specific dialogues between the trends of his contempo-
raries, Fischer treats the production of artwork as a type of syncretism:
the melding of various schools of thought by artists working off one an-
other. Fischer aestheticizes this collective emersion to provide insight on
the current directions of art in social media. The result is a delicate med-
ley of information and simulation.

Alex Fischer was born in Walkerton, Ontario and is currently in the
process of receiving his BFA Honours from York University. More of Fis-
cher’s work can be seen at artofalexfischer.com.

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