Beverly Fishman — Untitled (Opioid Addiction)
Beverly Fishman — Untitled (Opioid Addiction)
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14 Color, hand-pulled serigraph print on 130lb Cougar White with high gloss spot UV as the 15th Layer. Straight cut, numbered, and signed by the artist.
30h x 20w inches
Edition of 50
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The buyer accepts all terms of sale and agrees that the edition will not be resold for a minimum of one year from the purchase date. Copyright of the artwork is non-transferable and remains the property of the artist.
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Louis Buhl & Co. is proud to announce a new print edition with Detroit-based artist Beverly Fishman, Untitled (Opioid Addiction). This edition merges the artist’s exploratory process in paper with the sleek finish and sheen of her recognizable reliefs. Beverly Fishman's evolving exploration of glossy, pill-shaped reliefs are created to attract immediate attention, mimicking the vigorous and persuasive tactics used by drug companies and their advertising agents.
Over 2 million Americans are fighting addictions to pharmaceuticals derived from opium, and medication for mood disorders and ADD/ADHD are currently as prevalent for mental illness as for recreational and occasional use. An eagerness to solve all our problems with a prescription points to a global dilemma that resonates on an ethical, social, and emotional level for Fishman. It is by transforming the iconography of medicine and translating it into the realm of art that Fishman forces us to consider our own attraction, revulsion, and dependence on Big Pharma.
"In my work, I hope the colors and forms—even if you know nothing about them—evoke a technologically mediated world, one in which our desires are fed by the mass media and our identities are influenced by the products that we consume.” — Beverly Fishman
