BEVERLY FISHMAN at the ADAA ART SHOW

BEVERLY FISHMAN
ADAA ART SHOW

2 - 6 NOVEMBER 2022

PARK AVENUE ARMORY
NEW YORK, NY

BOOTH A5
MILES MCENERY GALLERY IS PLEASED TO PRESENT RECENT WORK BY BEVERLY FISHMAN IN THE 2022 EDITION OF THE ADAA ART SHOW. BOOTH A5
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Miles McEnery Gallery, The Art Show, Booth #A5
BEVERLY FISHMAN

Untitled (Migraine, ADHD, Pain, Pain), 2022

Urethane paint on wood

44 x 43 5/8 inches

111.8 x 110.8 cm
"Beverly Fishman’s paintings look good enough to eat. Comprising groups of geometric forms in vivid, contrasting colors—from a calming periwinkle blue to an arresting neon yellow—they seem purpose built for seduction. It is only after reading their parenthetical titles, such as Untitled (Migraine, ADHD, Pain, Pain) and Untitled (Abortion, Chronic Pain, Panic Disorder, Narcolepsy), that viewers notice that something is amiss. Each shape, they soon come to realize, corresponds to a different medical product—creating a complex portrait of a nation under the thrall of Big Pharma."

- Chloe Stead in "Beverly Fishman"
BEVERLY FISHMAN

Untitled (Opioid Addiction, Diabetes, Pain, Pain), 2022

Urethane paint on wood

44 x 43 1/4 inches

111.8 x 109.9 cm
BEVERLY FISHMAN

Untitled (Opioid Addiction, ADHD, Anxiety, Pain), 2022

Urethane paint on wood

44 x 44 inches

111.8 x 111.8 cm
"In this new series, the artist continues her interest in what she calls the 'epidemic of polypharmacy,' which refers to the concurrent—and potentially disastrous—use of multiple medications by one individual. 'The question is how do these things work together in our system,' Fishman explains, “and the truth is that most of the time they don’t.'"

- Chloe Stead in "Beverly Fishman"
BEVERLY FISHMAN

Untitled (Depression, Depression, ADHD, Diabetes), 2022

Urethane paint on wood

43 x 41 1/4 inches

109.2 x 105.1 cm
BEVERLY FISHMAN

Untitled (Opioid Addiction, Panic Disorder, Panic Disorder, Abortion), 2022

Urethane paint on wood

44 3/4 x 44 inches

113.3 x 113 cm
"As is common in the artist’s practice, the colors of the seven pieces on display mimic the ways that drug companies use color to elicit emotional responses from the public, which she likens to the placebo effect: 'If I see a red pill, I think, wow, that’s really going to be powerful. Or what happens if I look at a tiny blue pill? I think, yeah, that’s good, but two pills? That is even better.'"

- Chloe Stead in "Beverly Fishman"
BEVERLY FISHMAN

Untitled (Abortion, Chronic Pain, Panic Disorder, Narcolepsy), 2022

Urethane paint on wood

45 x 42 inches

114.3 x 106.7 cm
BEVERLY FISHMAN

Untitled (Diabetes, Depression, Asthma, ADHD), 2022

Urethane paint on wood

44 x 42 1/2 inches

111.8 x 108 cm
Beverly Fishman in her studio, 2021, Detroit, MI

Beverly Fishman (b. 1955, Philadelphia, PA) received her Master of Fine Arts in 1980 from Yale University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1977.

Fishman’s work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI; Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany; SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC; Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit, MI; Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI; Ronchini Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY; and CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY.

She has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI; National Academy of Design, New York, NY; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; and White Columns, New York, NY, among others.

Her work may be found in the collections of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, East Lansing, MI; MacArthur Foundation Collection, Chicago, IL; Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, and elsewhere.

Fishman was inducted as a National Academician of the National Academy of Design in 2020. She is the recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Award; the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Hassam, Speicher, Betts, & Symons Purchase Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts; and a Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The artist lives and works in Detroit, MI.