Artist Bill Brand has long been recognized both as a filmmaker and as the world's leading authority on the preservation of historically important experimental films. His extensive drawing and painting studio practice has been less known, until now. 

Invisible Fisherman: The Art of Bill Brand features critical essays by leading scholars on the experimental and expanded cinema practice of Bill Brand. The second half of the book shines a light on his lifetime studio practice in film, installation, drawing and painting, with full color images of his artwork. Brand himself navigates his portfolio in a "studio visit" with editor Tara Nelson, sharing his personal history with drawing and painting as a critical approach to problem solving and creative development throughout his career. 

Invisible Fisherman: The Art of Bill Brand includes essays by Robby Gilbert, Annie Dell'Aria, Alberte Pagán, Esperanza Collado, and Genevieve Yue. The book is edited by Tara Nelson and Scott Hammen

"The name of artist Bill Brand is so well known and admired in the field of moving image art that it is hard to believe that many of his most notable achievements have up to now remained almost invisible. He has brought the same curiosity and inventiveness that have served him so well in preserving films of others to his own work in a surprising variety of other media." shares Tara Merenda Nelson, VSW Chief Curator and Managing Editor of VSW Press.

Invisible Fisherman: The Art of Bill Brand
Publication date: April 2026
Perfect bound softcover
8 x 10 inches, 160 pages
Full color photographs
ISBN 0-89822-214-1
$40.00