Michael’s Art

An exhibition of recent art that took place in Nanaimo, BC in Denny’s Gallery. View the art, statements and artist talk videos.

This video is about R. Michael Fisher’s aesthetic philosophy of coloring, and its
distinction from drawing. Michael also illustrates how to move from fear to fearlessness as a creator in the video. View the “Fusion Coloring” video

View the “Deceptively Simple” Artist Residency page at Lakehead University LAIR Exhibition Gallery

This is a compilation of happenings from an artist residency at an urban core daycare and kindergarten site from July-December, 2021. The artist provides some notes on how to approach a residency, create site-specific art and work with the children, their teachers, care staff and the community surrounding the site. A newly coined concept of minusio, emerged over time and served as an invisible basis for art-care, in a sense the mirror(ing) of the gift of nurturing but also the lack of care—and offering a route to what human’s really desire, when they are not so busy and distracted by the banality of the world. See full article at Artizein: Arts & Teaching Journal