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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Damianne Fischer
NoneDelaware Ohio 43015 United States Home Phone: 7408169574
Bio
I am Damianne Fischer and I consider myself a maker and a self taught artist. I have never formally studied art but creating art just seemed to pursue me as far back as I have memories. My life adventure began in the very small town in rural southeastern Ohio in the early 1960’s. This area is not known for its “art” but for the most part coal and poverty. Regardless of where I was in my life’s journey, my desire and passion to create was always there, but it was held down and put into the background with my family being my focus. But now later in my life I am pursing those passions to make art my life’s work. Creating and sharing my art is an extraordinary feeling and takes me to a raw emotional place and one of satisfaction. I am drawn to nature for inspiration and as well as my love of mechanical and architectural design. I have working woman’s hands because I use them often and hard to construct wonderfully strong female figures. These figures have stories to tell you. I have always loved the process of reusing, recycling and up-cycling of all things around me. I also have my hands in a variety of creative interests including drawing, fashion and costume design by reusing textiles and I love to play in the dirt while landscaping. Everyday brings new possibilities and new materials to explore.
Artist Statement
As an artist, my focus and obsession is experimenting and creating sculptures with found and thrifted objects, raw materials from nature and strangely, the “lowly” lint in the dryer vent. I push together and incorporate dryer lint clay and found materials that on the front end of a project are not likely companions that transform into female figures. My collection of objects includes so many items; anything from a bird’s nest, seed pods, wasp nests, embroidery floss, hardware, rusty barbed wire, old cabinet doors and so much more. During the process of combining these materials they become an integrated and cohesive object that emanates from the darker part of my female psyche. Not all things beautiful need to be perfect and flawless. I find beauty in the female form when is it dissected and re-imagined to express my experience and the experiences of other women. I want to take the viewer on a journey to experience their own emotion and raw sense of my art and the story it tells.
It is important for me to be a part of a growing trend of makers that are conscious of the environment and sustainability as we are inspired to utilize items that have been cast off to be re-used, recycled and crafted into works of art. One person’s cast off item is this woman’s treasure to use as I continue my life as an artist.