Louise Fishman

Louise Fishman

Infobox Artist
name = Louise Fishman



imagesize = 170px
birthdate = January 14, 1939
location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
nationality = American
field = Painter
training =
movement = Abstract

Biography

Louise Fishman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 14, 1939. She is recognized as one of the best known American abstract painters of her generation. Her painting style at first gave her some trouble in being recognized. She exhibited only occasionally in the 1960s, a period in her life when she produced primarily grid based work. During the later 1970s her abstract work was linked with Pattern painting and she became one of Americas most exciting young painters. Large scale works like "Grand Slam" (1985) and "Cinnabar and Malachite" (1986) reflected her bold visions, and caused many reviewers to label her work as having elements of Neo Expressionism..Hilstrom, Laurie (1999) "Contemporary Women Artists"]

As the feminist movement gained strength in the 1970s, Fishman abandoned her Minimalist-inspired, grid-like paintings and began making work that reflected womens traditional tasks. These pieces required the sort of repetitive steps that characterize activities like knitting, piecing, or stitching. Returning later to the masculine realm of abstract painting, Fishman still sought a way to distinguish what she was doing from the work of male artists, both historic and contemporary. The resulting compositions combine gestural brushwork with an orderly structure: it is as if Fishman built or wove-- her paintings, starting from a foundation and carefully adding to them, layer upon interlocking layer.

In 1988, Fishman accompanied a friend who survived the Holocaust at both Auschwitz and Terezin. This trip was part of a larger one that took her to Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest. This trip had a dramatic impact on her life as an artist and altered her way of working. She returned with ashes, cremated human remainsfrom Auschwitz. She mixed the ashes with beeswax to use in her paints for the series remembrance and Renewal.Hilstrom, Laurie (1999) "Contemporary Women Artists"] These paintings served as abstract art as well as memorials to a tragic and obscene event in history.In the early 1990s she returned to painting grids in a slightly altered format. This can be seen in works such as "Sipapu" (1991) and "Shadows and Traces" (1992)

The organization ot Fishman's work derives ultimately from the grid, which was key 35years ago, is vestigially apparent though less and less important. Some of the mark-making in the current paintings inclines toward writing, as has been true for around a decade. .Princenthal, Nancy (2006) "Art in America" ]

Education

Fishmans education consists of some of the best Pennsylvania art schools. Her education starts with her attendance to the Philadelphia College of Art between 1956 and 1957. In 1958 she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. After being successful at both schools she went on to receive her BFA and BS at the Tyler School of Fine arts in Elkins, Pennsylvania, and in 1965 she secured her MFA from the University of Illinois, Champaign.

Awards

*Senior Art Prize, Tyler School1963
*Change, Inc. Award1975
*National Endowment for the Arts Grant1975, 1983, 1994
*Guggenheim Fellowship1979
*CAPS Fellowship1981
*New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship1986
*Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant1986

Individual Exhibitions

*1964 Philadelphia Art Alliance
*1964 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
*1967 University of Rhode Island, Kingston
**John Doyle Gallery, Chicago
*1977 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
*1978 Department of State, Washington, D.C.
*1979 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
**855 Mercer, New York
*1980 Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York
*1982 Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York
*1984 Backerville & Watson Gallery, New York
*1985 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
*1986 Backerville & Watson Gallery, New York
*1987 Winston Gallery, Washington, D.C.
*1989 Simon Watson Gallery, New York
**Lennon, Weinberg, New York
*1991 Lennon, Weinberg, New York
*1992 Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
**Simon Watson Gallery, New York
**Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
**Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
*1993 Robert Miller Gallery, New York
*1994 Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami
*1995 Robert Miller Gallery, New York
*1996 Robert Miller Gallery, New York
*1998 Cheim & Read, New York

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Notes

References


* Hillstrom, Laurie C., and Kevin Hillstrom, eds. "Contemporary Women Artists". Detroit: St. James P, 1999. 205-206.
*Princenthal, Nancy. "Louise Fishman at Cheim & Read." Art in America; May2006, Vol. 94 Issue 5, p182-182, 1/2p

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