Untitled (Pain, Asthma, Depression, ADHD)

Beverly Fishman

Beverly Fishman’s neon-hued geometric works utilize both shaped canvases and eye-popping forms within the picture plane. Her subjects range from stars and boxes to depictions of human heads and skulls and crossbones, and include cameos by pop cultural icons like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Fishman draws on a range of artistic and conceptual influences in crafting her unique canvases, from the industrial-inspired Minimalism of artists like Donald Judd or Frank Stella to techniques taken from the fields of science and medicine. Her “Pill Reliefs,” for example, use shapes taken from pharmacology as the basis for their abstract compositions, while her “Dividose” paintings appropriate the linear aesthetic of medical imaging technologies such as EEG and EKG machines. Fishman has exhibited in cities around the world, and her works are in the collections of the Cranbrook Art Museum, the MacArthur Foundation Collection, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.