Social Abstraction

Beverly Fishman: Color-Coding Big Pharma

Art:21 Magazine

Zachary Small reviews Beverly Fishman: DOSE, curated by Nick Cave, at the CUE Art Foundation, New York, on view through April 5, 2017. Small writes: “Similar to the industrial character of her color palette, Fishman’s pills have a glossy, plastic finish. This is another red herring, an effect that might lead a viewer to believe […]

Beverly Fishman: The Drug of Abstraction

Art in America

Jason Stopa interviews painter Beverly Fishman on the occasion of her show DOSE, curated by Nick Cave, at the CUE Art Foundation, New York, on view through April 5, 2017. Fishman comments: “I believe that it’s important that the viewer know my content. That’s why I think my titles are significant, because they help to […]

Julie Mehretu: Can Social Abstraction Succeed?

Art F City

Paddy Johnson reviews Julie Mehretu: Hoodnyx, Voodoo and Stelae at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, on view through October 29, 2016. Johnson writes: “Without the titles, there’s no way to identify the grim events that inspire [Mehretu’s] work. The paintings add little to a path of abstract artist well trodden by now. With them, the mass […]