Beverly Fishman

  • "Beverly Fishman makes paintings and sculptures that explore the way drugs of all kinds have changed the experience of being alive. Using sophisticated compositions and vibrant color systems, she addresses the socio-cultural relationship between the human desire for transformation and the use of pills as a means for healing, easing suffering, and self-improvement. Over the course of more than 40 years of artmaking, Fishman’s work has engaged the reality and fantasy of progress."

    Jessica Silverman Gallery

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  • Beverly Fishman  (b. 1955, Philadelphia, PA)  was an artist-in-residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art between 1992 and 2019, where she was Head of the Painting Department. She is a Guggenheim fellow, a National Academy of Design Academician, and an Anonymous Was a Woman awardee. She studied with Ree Morton at the Philadelphia College of Art (BFA) and with Elizabeth Murray at Yale University (MFA). She has enjoyed over forty solo exhibitions, including at Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Toledo Museum of Art, OH; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO; and Cranbrook Museum of Art, MI among others. Her work is in many collections, including Broad Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Michigan State University, MI; The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Cranbrook Art Museum, MI; and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, KS. Fishman lives and works in Detroit, MI.

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