Jane Fisher has shown work in public since 1984. She is well known in the Bay Area and has exhibited her works throughout the United States. Jane Fisher received her BFA from Ohio University and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from The Art Institute of Chicago. She paints ordinary, identifiable people in familiar settings - individuals rather than ideals – and familiar though not necessarily family, with subject matter ranging from divers in mid-air to models at an auto expo.

- Adam Beck, askART

This new body of work confirms Jane Fisher’s command of subject and palette as presented from her insightful perspective. She paints ordinary, identifiable people in familiar settings – individuals rather than ideals - and familiar though not necessarily family. The people in this series are divers - in motion in mid air or static on the board, and in, or above, the water.

- SF Station

Figurative painter Jane Fisher returns to Chicago with her latest series of paintings: a simple celebration of humanity entitled Big Heads and Bigger Women. The collection is divided among seven large-scale portraits of men's heads and a group of full-body paintings of women from adolescence to post-retirement age. Despite their seductive style of dress, Fisher says, the women aren't meant to incite a feminist dialog. Instead, the canvases' everyday settings show viewers an uncomplicated portrayal of people in their element.

– Morgan Phelps, Flavorpill

Fisher...typically casts family and friends (individually and in pairs) as protagonists in psychologically open-ended Rorschach tests.

- Harry Roche, "Jane Fisher at Hackett-Freedman," Artweek, Oct. 1998

Her paintings' artificially lit backgrounds of green rooms, yellow interiors, and brown cement walls close behind her dully pensive figures, illuminating inchoate sadness.

- Apollinaire Scherr, East Bay Express, 1998

Fisher's paintings are both subtle and direct in their evocation of a psychological state - the human comedy.

-Program: Jane Fisher Paintings and Drawings, Chicago Cultural Center, 1992

In each work, we are left to ascertain the state of the subject and somehow reconcile Fisher's deft, modeled technique with her compelling yet disturbing imagery as she pushes the boundaries between drama and trauma.

- Review of "New Drawings", Struve Gallery, Chicago, New Art Examiner, 1991