Standard Gauge: Morgan Fisher

Morgan Fisher is a Los Angeles–based artist working in film, painting, and sculpture who first came to attention as a key participant in the Structural film movement that emerged in the late 1960s. The Whitney presents the installation Color Balance (1980) and eight of Fisher’s films, providing a rare opportunity to survey his contribution to the kind of filmmaking that was being developed in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. Color Balance, not exhibited since its 1983 presentation at the P.S.1 Clocktower Gallery, consists of three separate short films of a Ping-Pong ball, tinted red, blue, and green respectively and projected in superimposition to create a composite image. The early films, shown in three special screenings over the course of the exhibition, are constructed according to conceptual or 'structural' principles, reflecting both the shift away from the conventions of Hollywood cinema evident in the art world at the beginning of the 1970s and Fisher’s own concern with sculptural and painterly space, materials, and time. His most recent film, included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, will also be shown.

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Standard Gauge: Film Works by Morgan Fisher, 1968-2003
Kaufman Astoria Studios Film & Video Gallery