BEVERLY FISHMAN | 8 MAY - 21 JUNE 2025

"Her vividly colored, immaculately produced paintings on wood supports are shaped to resemble enlarged pills, which she then subtly links together to create unique prescription cocktails. Each arrangement is a discrete work of art, an alluring visual placebo coaxing different psychic effects based on Fishman’s juxtapositions of color, shape, and volume."

- Meredith Mendelsohn in "This Could Be the Cure"

"With each new body of work, Fishman’s pill count grows. Geometries of Hope (and Fear) includes her most complex cocktails yet—eight, nine, ten different pill-like components in a single assemblage...The challenge of positioning so many pill forms in a single work inspired Fishman to develop an important new compositional strategy. In six works that are introduced here, she abandons the x and y axis for a more expressive jumble. The idea came to her when she saw a photo of her friend’s daily pill intake in the palm of his hand."

- Meredith Mendelsohn in "This Could Be the Cure"

"We can sense the anatomical contours in the vaguely triangular arrangements, and there’s a new whiff of movement and randomness, as though the pills have just been scooped off the bathroom counter or are succumbing to gravity as they slide down someone’s throat. We sense a stronger human presence. Fishman’s own hand is also more visible, glimpsed in the off-kilter positioning of some of the components. She calls these works Equilibrium."

- Meredith Mendelsohn in "This Could Be the Cure"

"'I just want my work to start a conversation that doesn’t have a didactic end, to provide an experience that makes you want to stay long enough to think,' she says. And that it does. Her growing body of geometric abstractions not only catapult a pressing cultural reality to the forefront of our consciousness, but they are incredibly rewarding to look at. The placebo effect is real."

- Meredith Mendelsohn in "This Could Be the Cure"

BEVERLY FISHMAN (b. 1955 in 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 CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY; Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI; Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan; Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY; Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI; Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit, MI; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Ronchini Gallery, London, United Kingdom; SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC; The Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH; and Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany.

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; Circulo de Bessa Artes, Madrid, Spain; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; National Academy of Design, New York, NY; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; 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.