5 color screenprint with 1 color relief collaged onto 4ply museum board
$2,750–$2,940Price range: $2,750 through $2,940
Color is central to Beverly Fishman’s practice, often triggering sensations of taste, smell, mood and emotion. She combines natural and non-natural hues to encourage viewers to consider the ways in which our organic natures have been transformed by medical technologies and the capitalist industries in which they are enmeshed.
Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist on the reverse. All Haystack editions come with a Certificate of Authenticity.
About the Artwork
Color is central to Beverly Fishman’s practice, often triggering sensations of taste, smell, mood and emotion. She combines natural and non-natural hues to encourage viewers to consider the ways in which our organic natures have been transformed by medical technologies and the capitalist industries in which they are enmeshed. Fishman suggests our contemporary condition offers both tremendous possibilities and great dangers — and that learning to navigate both is one of the most pressing issues of our time.
Produced in collaboration with the artist and master printer PS Marlowe Studios, Asheville, North Carolina.
Curator's Note
Where Self Determination I opens the question, Self Determination II presses it further. What does it mean to determine oneself in a body so thoroughly shaped by pharmaceutical systems, medical technologies and the industries that produce them?
Collected alongside Self Determination I, the two works form a sustained meditation on autonomy and its limits. .
About the Artist
Beverly Fishman (b.1955, Philadelphia, PA) appropriates the forms of pharmaceuticals, fragmenting and recombining the shapes to create larger assemblages – drug cocktails, if you will – that evoke our complex relationships to ideas of sickness and health.
