Rose-Lynn Fisher: Stardust: Bone & Botticelli
August 31 - October 12, 2024
Rose-Lynn Fisher examines the relationship between micro and macro in Stardust: Bone & Botticelli, the artist’s fourth solo show with the gallery. The exhibition features images of Fisher’s own bone, detritus from the back of a Botticelli painting undergoing restoration at the Getty, and other lyrical contemplations on dust— this ubiquitous material that collects on the contours of our world, marking time, body, and place. Inspired by recent discoveries from the Webb Space Telescope, Fisher meditates on a defining truth: the calcium in our bones and iron in our blood came from the explosion of a dying star billions of years ago. Or, as Carl Sagan put it, “the cosmos is within us.”
In the latest of her micrographic quests, Fisher magnifies and inverts her images, exploring the interchangeability of form and space, dark and light, negative and positive. Zoomed in thousands of times, a blood cell becomes a celestial body; crumbs of wax, dirt, and grime stretch into entire landscapes. Everything of the cosmos—from a speck of dust to a planet, a neuron to a galaxy—is connected.