ARTIST STATEMENT:
I am interested in how memory reshapes what we have seen and felt. Experiences are accumulated, fragmented, obscured, and reconstructed over time. In my work, forms emerge and disappear, structures loosen, and fragments of landscape become something less literal and more psychological. The paintings evolve as acts of discovery, revealing relationships between presence and absence, certainty and uncertainty, order and disruption.
My background in interior design informs the way I think about space. Composition, proportion, movement, and the emotional qualities of color are central to my process. I pay close attention to how the eye travels through a painting, how areas of density and openness create rhythm, and how visual tension can coexist with moments of quiet.
The title of my current body of work, Holding Space, reflects an ongoing interest in preserving what cannot be fully resolved. Rather than documenting specific locations or events, I create paintings that hold fragments of experience in suspension—memories, sensations, gestures, and traces of presence that resist fixed interpretation. Through the process of layering, disruption, erasure, and reconstruction, the work becomes a space where memory, atmosphere, and feeling remain active, open, and evolving.
ARTIST BIO:
Maureen Fisher is a Los Angeles–based abstract painter whose work explores memory, place, and interior space. Working in layered fields of color, gesture, and texture, she transforms lived experience into paintings that balance structure and intuition, allowing forms to emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure over time.
Rather than depicting specific scenes, Fisher’s paintings investigate what remains after experience has passed—the fragments of atmosphere, sensation, and emotional resonance that linger in memory. Her recent work explores the idea of holding space: preserving ambiguity, tension, and possibility within the painted surface. Through layering, disruption, concealment, and revelation, her paintings create interior landscapes shaped as much by feeling as by observation.
Before focusing fully on painting, Fisher founded and led two interior design firms. Her background in design continues to inform her sensitivity to composition, proportion, movement, and the emotional qualities of space. This awareness of how people inhabit environments remains central to her visual language. Fisher holds undergraduate degrees in Literature and Art History from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree from Syracuse University. She is a Certified California Interior Designer and a LEED Accredited Professional in Building Design and Construction.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and recognized in juried exhibitions and international competitions. Her paintings are held in private collections throughout the United States.
She lives and works in Los Angeles.