Limited Taxonomy
ORGANIZED BY JESSIE FISHER AND VIY
AUGUST 6TH - SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2025
Limited Taxonomy is a research-based project organized by Jessie Fisher and Viy that seeks to bridge the human / nature divide by examining how built and non-built environments interact on a small scale.
Working on a 12x12 ft plot in Millwork Commons where industry, development, and nature co-exist, Fisher and Viy set out to document the plants, fungi, insects, rocks, and debris on the site’s surface. They researched each of these organic and inorganic bodies to create a taxonomic index that traces their characteristics, histories, and journeys resulting in a body of work that includes photographs and printed material. Installed in a constellation of images and text, Limited Taxonomy uses small scale intervention and a light hand to magnify the complex entanglements of interdependent human and non-human environments.
Installation Images
Limited Taxonomy Publication
Research produced as part of Limited Taxonomy was collected and published in a small volume. Click the image above to see a digital version of the publication.
About the Artists
Jessie Fisher makes art in multiple mediums, but for the last 5 years has primarily been a printmaker. He works in letterpress, woodcut/linocut, monotype, and cyanotype. Whether it’s experiments with processes, or more direct socio-political propaganda, the work encourages questioning what's possible. Jessie grew up on a farm in rural Nebraska, but has called Omaha home for the past 20 years. In that time he's worked in construction, art education and for the past 6 years has been a home inspector. Jessie helped create an art/community space called “Media Corp.” It provided meeting space for a variety of advocacy groups and also functioned as a food pantry for a time.
Viy, pronounced /v/, is a non-binary, multi-media artist. Their practice focuses on the materiality and history of objects, breaking them down to better understand them so they can be reconfigured and re-contextualized as art objects. Interested in refuse and refusal, their work comes from their own trash and items discarded by others, refusing the notion that these objects are worthless and instead seeing them as full of artistic potential. Most recently their practice has been focused in handmade papermaking, fiber based media, and relational aesthetics.