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.
The edition was produced in collaboration with PS Marlowe.
Curator's Note
Beverly Fishman’s Self Determination I arrives at a particular moment in her practice — one in which the language of medicine, industry and the body has become impossible to separate from the language of autonomy. The title is both a declaration and a question. In a contemporary condition shaped so thoroughly by pharmaceutical systems and capitalist industries, what does it mean to determine oneself? What remains of the organic when so much has been quietly transformed?
Fishman’s answer, characteristically, is color. The natural and non-natural hues she combines here do not illustrate these questions so much as embody them, triggering sensations of taste, smell, mood and emotion that arrive in the body before they can be reasoned with. Self Determination I explores the condition Fishman has spent decades examining: the tremendous possibilities and great dangers of being alive now, and the ongoing, pressing work of navigating both.
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.
