N.,” Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY “DOSE” (curated by Nick Cave), CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY “Another Day in Paradise,” Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL and “Pain Management,” Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI. Recent solo exhibitions include “I Dream of Sleep,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY “Untitled Monotypes,” Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit, MI “Fantastic Voyage, 1985-1987,” Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI “Future Perfect,” Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL Ronchini Gallery, London, United Kingdom “Synthetic Wonderland,” Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY “Chemical Sublime,” Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL “T. 1955, Philadelphia, PA) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1977 from Philadelphia College of Art and her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980 from Yale University. Deeply personal, the selection of works on view are partially motivated by her sister Judy’s passing in December 2018 after a month-long stay at a New Jersey hospital.īEVERLY FISHMAN (b. As an artist who came of age in New York during the AIDS crisis and having cared for multiple ailing family members, Fishman’s life experiences have been marked by the medicalization of the people she has loved. Instilled with the standardized shapes of mass-produced medications, Fishman’s works deliver what looks like an opaque, machine high-gloss nish that, paradoxically, is meticulously handmade.įishman appropriates familiar and addictive pill forms, drawing both the philosophies and the physical manifestations of pharmaceuticals into conversation with their intensely felt human repercussions. Each one contaminates the spaces of art and pharmaceuticals, speaking of the rage of loss in the language of corporate cure. They suggest the sleek corporate marketing and the fluorescent language of caution, even emergency. The paintings in I Dream of Sleep are based on the slick, angular packaging of the pharmaceutical industry. Fishman’s works are instead grounded in a “messier lineage of paintings and sculpture that occupy an interchangeable space between form and feeling - that channel loss and joy, contemplation and analysis along the lines of color.” Shape and color are united with questions of identity. While her works have been compared to those of Finish Fetish artists like John McCracken and Robert Irwin, as well as those of Peter Halley, she affirms that her practice deviates from a direct dialogue with (implicitly male) hard-edged abstraction. Since the early 1980s, Beverly Fishman has developed a distinctive body of hard-edge, dimensional, abstract paintings that are infused with emotion. The show is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by Amy Rahn. I Dream of Sleep will open 10 September at 525 West 22nd Street and remain on view through 10 October 2020. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MILES McENERY GALLERY is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Beverly Fishman.
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