Rate My Professor Timothy Fisher

Fisher's research specializations lie in studio drawing and painting, where he creates oil paintings that explore iconography, archetypes, and narratives through dreamlike, surreal imagery such as tornados of fruit, milky floating grounds, flora, fauna, and human figures. These works juxtapose familiar, warm appearances with strange, sublime, and mystical elements drawn from European cultural traditions of symbols and desires, fostering reflective questioning and dialogue between subconscious mystery and conscious possibility. At GVSU, he coordinates the Drawing Program and teaches courses including Foundations: Introduction to Drawing I and II, Intermediate Drawing, Introduction to Painting, Life Drawing, Intermediate Painting II, and Advanced Drawing, in addition to co-leading the Art in London study abroad program. Fisher has earned major awards such as Best of Show at the Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center (2010); Grand Prize at the West Michigan Area Show, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts (2005); Best of Show at the National Spring Open Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center (2003); Best of Show at the 22nd Annual Michigan Artist Competition, The Art Center of Battle Creek (2002); and multiple Best of Show and placement awards in West Michigan Art Competitions and Great Lakes Regional Art Exhibitions between 1997 and 2010. Key exhibitions include solo shows at the Performing Arts Center Gallery, GVSU (2011), Springfield Art Museum (2006), Indianapolis Art Center (2004), and Midland Center for the Arts (2000), as well as participation in ArtPrize (2009), faculty exhibitions at GVSU, and national juried shows. His paintings are represented in public and private collections across the United States.