Kim Fisher has always been explicitly invested in fashion and its inevitable intertwining with that other elite pursuit, "advanced" art: Her earliest exhibited paintings replicated the signature color and typography of Tiffany bags. She followed these with a series of canvases that riffed on the logo for Andre Courreges, the 1960s designer of the go-go boot and the "moon girl" look. In 2000, she unveiled a series of provocative paintings that featured richly pigmented angular shapes based on beryls, or gemological facets, often augmented with intricate silk-screen images of jewelry, and executed on boisterous supports of raw linen stretched, quite deliberately, on the bias and …
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