This will be the first museum exhibition for San Francisco-based artist Jeremy Fish. Fish will use the upstairs galleries to create an installation with symbols and characters that he has been developing over the last ten years.

Weathering the Storm is a timely exhibition that is largely about transformation and rebirth through struggle.  Deliberately drawing from our own current economic and political events and its impact on us socially and emotionally, Fish's characters will reveal a narrative of evolution through struggle to obtain a more magnificent and resilient place.  In this exhibition, Fish will create paintings with hand carved wood frames, three-dimensional figures for the gallery wall installation, and sculptures.

Fish's iconography generally consists of a fairy tale world inhabited by beavers, skulls, and birds which he has developed in part as a response to the influence that popular culture, cartooning, and literature like the Brothers Grimm, has had on him.

Fish created a limited edition print exclusively for Laguna Art Museum.
Available for sale in the Museum Store November 8, 2009.

Fish, who lives in San Francisco, was born in 1974 in Albany, New York, and has lived and worked in San Francisco for the last 15 years. In 2006, Fish worked with Nike Skateboarding and designed the Air Classic shoe. He has also collaborated with hip-hop artist Aesop Rock for the album The Next Best Thing. Fish works his designs on to t-shirts, skateboards, and vinyl toys, and launched his own clothing company superFishal.

He has had exhibitions at Fifty24SF, San Francisco (2008, 2006); Joshua Liner Gallery, New York (2008); and The Don Milan (2008). His publications include Once Upon a Time, published by Fifty24SF Books (2008); Romantic Delusions, published by Drago Books (2008); and the cover of Juxtapoz Magazine (December, 2006).

Jeremy Fish: Weathering the Storm is curated by Grace Kook-Anderson, Curator of Exhibitions at Laguna Art Museum.