Gallery

2024 – 2025 Exhibits
Richter Library, Room 118

This year, Creative Studio is exhibiting two collections from photographer, Alexandra (Allie) Fisher; The Miami Metro Project and Extraneousness. Fisher is currently in her final year at the University of Miami studying fine art and oceanography and works as a freelance photographer. Through her work, Alexandra aims to create an emotional connection between the viewer and her photographs, often focusing on the dramatic use of negative space, light, and line to bring a fine-art perspective to every subject she works with. Based between Belmar, NJ and South Florida, she is currently available to book for surf & ocean work, lifestyle branding, couple & family sessions, graduation & senior portraits, sports, events, and more across the entire East Coast.

The Miami Metro Project

The Miami Metro Project investigates the Miami Metro system by studying and depicting the train itself—and those that use it—from entrance to exit. Inspired by artists like Walker Evans and Ernst Haas, this collection utilizes light, reflection, and framing elements to take both a documentary and abstracted approach to capturing the space. The images look not only to the passengers of the metro, but also to the unique details of construction and light created in it to create a complete view of the experience. The Miami Metro Project presents the metro not just as a mode of transport but as a place where many spend a great deal of their lives.

Extraneousness

Extraneousness documents the beauty of details that are lost in a person’s everyday view of the world and how these come together to form painting-like abstractions. The images hone in on the subject, focusing on extraneous visual information in the interactions between light, line, color, and water. When observed and photographed, these interactions provide an entirely new view of surroundings, revealing abstraction through framing, cropping, and reflection that skew perceptions. Influenced by photographers like Wolfgang Tillmans and Aaron Siskind, as well as abstract expressionist painters of the 1940s such as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, who focused on interactions of light, color, and form to capture abstraction, this collection explores the intersection of two mediums, creating photograph abstractions that react as a painting or drawing.