Following is a review of three exhibitions by Louise Fishman titled "A Restless Spirit", written by Carrie Moyer and published in Art in America, October 1, 2012. A legendary talker, Franz Kline is... Read full biography
Following is a review of three exhibitions by Louise Fishman titled "A Restless Spirit", written by Carrie Moyer and published in Art in America, October 1, 2012. A legendary talker, Franz Kline is famous for saying that "painting is like hands stuck in a mattress." Kline's remark vividly conjures... Read full biography
Following is a review of three exhibitions by Louise Fishman titled "A Restless Spirit", written by Carrie Moyer and published in Art in America, October 1, 2012. A legendary talker, Franz Kline is famous for saying that "painting is like hands stuck in a mattress." Kline's remark vividly conjures the image of a painter wrestling with the inert pigment in order to feel his image and bring it to life. Intensely tactile and athletic, the paintings of Louise Fishman seem to have been born of this... Read full biography
Following is a review of three exhibitions by Louise Fishman titled "A Restless Spirit", written by Carrie Moyer and published in Art in America, October 1, 2012. A legendary talker, Franz Kline is famous for saying that "painting is like hands stuck in a mattress." Kline's remark vividly conjures the image of a painter wrestling with the inert pigment in order to feel his image and bring it to life. Intensely tactile and athletic, the paintings of Louise Fishman seem to have been born of this impulse. At 73, she has spent more than 50 years pitching dynamic gestural painting up against the cool austerity of the grid. The result is an oeuvre that is resolutely idiosyncratic and canonical at the same time. In her work, the personal reveals... Read full biography
Following is a review of three exhibitions by Louise Fishman titled "A Restless Spirit", written by Carrie Moyer and published in Art in America, October 1, 2012. A legendary talker, Franz Kline is famous for saying that "painting is like hands stuck in a mattress." Kline's remark vividly conjures the image of a painter wrestling with the inert pigment in order to feel his image and bring it to life. Intensely tactile and athletic, the paintings of Louise Fishman seem to have been born of this impulse. At 73, she has spent more than 50 years pitching dynamic gestural painting up against the cool austerity of the grid. The result is an oeuvre that is resolutely idiosyncratic and canonical at the same time. In her work, the personal reveals itself incrementally through an ever-shifting abstract language invented to express the artist's compound identity as a woman, le... Read full biography
Louise Edith Fishman - Artist Info
About Louise Edith Fishman: Books
Books & Publications (10)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
100 New York Painters
2006
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris
224 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Community of Creativity A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Storr, Robert/Tom Wolf
103 pages (color)
Louise Fishman Paintings/1987-1989 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Weinberg, Jill/Bernard Lennon
40 pages (color)
Contemporary Women Artists
1988
Beckett, Wendy
128 pages (color)
40th Biennial Exhibition Contemporary American Painting (Exhibition catalog)