In conjunction with our current exhibition, Alternative Medicine: Healing Remedies for Harmful Times, join us for a casual conversation and lunch with the exhibiting artist, Beverly Fishman.

Fishman has centered her work around the body, investigating disease, identity, and medicine. She questions for-profit pharmaceuticals as the means for a cure, and the manufactured promise of prescription happiness. Her glowing fluorescent and smooth matte forms correspond to specific pills as Fishman expertly illustrates the measured precision of an individual’s unique prescription. Geometric fragments are stacked into singular compositions; some segments rendered whole and others fractured to imply partial doses. Parenthetical titles reference the condition each component promises to treat — epilepsy, pain, depression anxiety, insomnia, even opiate dependency (a pill to treat a pill).

Beverly Fishman (b. 1955, Philadelphia, PA) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1977 from Philadelphia College of Art, and her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980 from Yale University. Fishman lives and works in Detroit, MI.Exhibition and related programs made possible through the support of Bacca Foundation Visiting Scholar and Artist Program, Public Lectures Committee, and the McGaw Lecture Fund.

Exhibition and related programs made possible through the support of Bacca Foundation Visiting Scholar and Artist Program, Public Lectures Committee, and the McGaw Lecture Fund.