Society for Contemporary Art Collectors Sale | Hosted by Sotheby’s

Beverly Fishman

Untitled

Lot Closed

September 29, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Beverly Fishman

b. 1955

Untitled

Signed and dated 2020, recto

collage on paper

19 by 24 in. (48.26 by 60.96 cm.)

Please note that while this auction is hosted on Sothebys.com, it is being administered by the Art Institute of Chicago’s Society for Contemporary Art (the “SCA”), and all post-sale matters (inclusive of invoicing and property pickup/shipment) will be handled by the SCA. As such, Sotheby’s will share the contact details for the winning bidders with the SCA so that they may be in touch directly post-sale.

Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta, Chicago

Beverly Fishman is a leading protagonist in the field of politically activated abstract art, dedicating her studio practice to an aesthetic examination of people’s relationship with the business, politics and chemistry of healing. For decades, Fishman's research has focused on the visual vocabulary that pharmaceutical designers deploy in their calculated efforts to market antidepressants, anxiolytics, amphetamines, anti-inflammatories, beta blockers, opioids, and other chemicals to the masses. Morphed and elevated by Fishman in her studio, these medicinal motifs become the building blocks for ecstatic, abstract visual cocktails that open doors to the aesthetic sublime.

Exhibitions of Fishman’s work have been held at Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; and Library Street Collective, Detroit, among many others.