BEVERLY FISHMAN | GALERIE MAGAZINE

Beverly Fishman at Miles McEnery Gallery

Constructing abstract paintings that smartly reference the history of hard-edge abstraction and minimalism while addressing the impact of new technologies and the pharmaceutical industry on human life, Beverly Fishman makes hybrid sculptural paintings that are entirely her own. Earning an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1980, she was the artist-in-residence and Head of Painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit, where she still lives and works.

Her four-part, three-dimensional, shaped painting—Polypharmacy: Adhd, Anxiety, Adhd, Depression—at Miles McEnery Gallery’s fair booth is a visual metaphor for the damage caused by society’s dependence on addictive medications. The color combinations in the painted wood piece create a visual disturbance, and the shifting forms add psychological tension to the geometric mix. Poetically conveying the problem of prescribing multiple medicines to one individual, Fishman’s sculptural paintings delve into the promises of pharmaceuticals as the means for a cure while sparking dialogue around the growing health concerns related to Big Pharma and drugs.