Louise Fishman

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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Louise Fishman: Freedom in the Abstract

Posted: July 11, 2016
Category: Louise Fishman
eaturing 50 years of Fishman’s boundary-pushing works, the catalogue Louise Fishman (DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2016) was published for her first-ever retrospective, at the Neuberger Museum of Art, as well as a...
A canvas that has been thickly painted to have a dark brown and black background. The outlines of two large white ovals are placed side by side, spanning the width of the canvas and almost two-thirds the height, and rendered with visible brushwork. The left oval is slightly larger than the right. Inside the ovals are splotches of red and white paint, which have been applied in similarly thick brushstrokes.