Jeffrey Deitch x Urs Fischer: Opening Reception

Familiar objects take on distorted proportions and unexpected forms in the work of Swiss-born artist Urs Fischer. An opening reception for an exhibition presented by Jeffrey Deitch takes place Tuesday, December 1 at 45 NE 39th Street in the Miami Design District during Miami Art Week.

Working across sculpture, painting, photography and installation, Fischer uses humor, illusion and unconventional materials to unsettle everyday perceptions. His wider practice includes wax figures that gradually melt, houses constructed from bread and monumental sculptures derived from small, hand-shaped clay forms. His first large-scale American museum solo exhibition, Marguerite de Ponty, occupied three floors of New York’s New Museum in 2009–10.

Gallerist, curator and writer Jeffrey Deitch founded New York’s Deitch Projects in 1996, developing a program that brought exhibitions, performance and ambitious installations into the gallery setting. He later served as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where his projects included Art in the Streets, an exhibition examining graffiti and street art.

The reception introduces Fischer’s exhibition in the Design District; individual works have not yet been specified in the event announcement.