Los Angeles-based painter Heather Gwen Martin works at the edge of hard abstraction — where color becomes almost physical, with flourishes of elegant movement akin to dancing. Her palette is hot and bright, with hand-mixed tones that play off each …
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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.
