Dena Paige Fischer: Implements for Deviation presents sculptural objects built from hardware store materials — wood, metal, resin, epoxy — that bear all the physical markers of functionality while resisting use. Fischer doesn't use instruments to make art; she makes the instruments art. Several works are conceived as "mark makers" engineered to hinder precision and resist efficiency, generating a looseness of mark that proves elusive through conventional means. The struggle is recorded and becomes generative. Tipping at times into absurdity, the objects undercut their own utilitarian disguise with dry humor.
