Progress – Marcus Fischer and Lisa Ward

Progress – Marcus Fischer and Lisa Ward

Exhibition: May 3– 19, 2024 
510 Oak St, Eugene, OR 97403

Reception:  Friday, May 3 from 5:30-7:30  p.m.
Gallery hours: Friday- Sunday from 12:00- 4:00 p.m.

This exhibition examines the varied definitions of “progress” in the ongoing effort to witness, tend to, and historicize human intervention in places often considered unleveraged.

Progess is part of the exhibition series Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World, organized by curators-in-residence Ashley Stull Meyers and Aurora Tang and made possible by the University of Oregon Department of Art’s Center for Art Research and the Ford Family Foundation.

Marcus Fischer

Marcus Fischer is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. He is a first-generation American artist that explores sound through creation, collection, and transformation into immersive, layered compositions for live performances and exhibitions. Site-specific assemblages of exposed speakers, tape loops, and handmade objects are characteristic of his installations, often paired with melodies of restraint and tension. He contributed two sound works and two performances to the 2019 Whitney Biennial as the singular artist from the Pacific Northwest region included in the edition. Fischer’s most recent solo exhibition “What Was Lost and What Remains” addressed themes of loss, generational trauma, and gun violence in the United States.

Marcus has recorded and performed nationally and internationally as a solo artist and in collaborations with artists including Taylor Deupree, Aki Onda, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Laura Ortman, Stephen Vitiello, Calexico, Raven Chacon, and Simon Scott. He has been awarded residencies at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s Rauschenberg Residency, and at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

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Lisa Ward

Lisa Ward is an artist working in sculpture, sound, and performance, exploring symbols of human habitation and infrastructure and their relationship to the surrounding landscape. Her work surveys the unintentional iconography of recurrent objects in our environment that continue to signal cultural values in respect to land and natural resources – perhaps long after they’ve served their purpose. Lisa is an Alum of Oberlin College and the University of Oregon School of Architecture. Her work has received grants from the National Endowment from the Arts, Oregon Arts Commission and the Puffin Foundation. She has shown work at High Desert Test Sites, Sierra Nevada College of Fine Arts, and Spaceness. Lisa is based in Portland and works as a Production Designer for Film and Television.