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Louise Fishman

Louise Fishman

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    View works. Louise Fishman, Untitled, 2020
    Untitled, 2020
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    Louise Fishman was born in 1939 in Philadelphia. In 1956 she began studying art at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, then at Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art, where she earned her BFA in Painting and Printmaking, and a B.S. in Art Education in 1963. She completed her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, and headed directly to New York in 1965, where she lived and worked until her death in 2021. In 2012 Fishman married Ingrid Nyeboe.

     

    Her work is represented in many public collections, including: the National Academy of Art and Design, NY; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; the Jewish Museum, New York; the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; the Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; the Hood Museum, Hanover, NH; the Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

     

    She was the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants; a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among others. She was included in three Whitney Biennials, 1973, 1987, and 2014. In 2016, the Neuberger Museum of Art organized the artist’s first retrospective, curated by Helaine Posner, which traveled to the Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A second related exhibition at the ICA Philadelphia titled Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock, was curated by Ingrid Schaffner. A retrospective of work on paper curated by Amy L. Powell, A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing was at the Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL in 2021/2022.

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  • Works
    • abstract drawing
      Untitled, 2020
    • abstract drawing
      Untitled, 2020
    • Louise Fishman, Saga, 2010
      Saga, 2010
    • abstract painting
      A Foreign Line of Verse, 2003
    • abstract painting
      Rock and Roll, 2003
    • abstract painting
      My Funny Valentine, 2002
    • abstract painting
      Wintereisse, 2002
    • abstract drawing
      Untitled, 2001
    • detail of an abstract drawing
      Untitled, 2001
    • Louise Fishman, You Can't Know It, But You Can Be It, 1997
      You Can't Know It, But You Can Be It, 1997
  • Exhibitions
    • installation view

      LOUISE FISHMAN: always stand ajar

      2nd Floor Gallery April 10 - June 27, 2025
      Van Doren Waxter is delighted to announce LOUISE FISHMAN: always stand ajar , an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by the venerable American painter organized with the Louise...
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    • installation view

      Small is Beautiful

      2nd Floor Gallery February 6 - April 4, 2025
      Van Doren Waxter is pleased to present Small is Beautiful, an exhibition of small-scale works by 22 artists, both familiar and new faces to the gallery’s program. The exhibition features...
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  • News
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      Van Doren Waxter Announces Representation of The Louise Fishman Foundation

      March 25, 2024
      My paintings have been powerful in a way that comes directly from my own thoughts and feelings. People look at my work, and they can...
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  • Press
    • Scrawled and Sensuous: Louise Fishman at Krannert Art Museum

      Art in America | By Jessica Baran
      December 15, 2021
    • Louise Fishman: Ballin’ the Jack

      The Brooklyn Rail | By Ksenia Soboleva
      November 1, 2020
    • Review: Better late than never: It’s time to submit to the surprises of Louise Fishman’s art

      The Los Angeles Times | By Leah Ollman
      October 22, 2019
    • Homegrown painter Louise Fishman gets a victory lap in Philadelphia

      The Philadelphia Inquirer | By Edith Newhall
      September 26, 2019
    • The Evolution of Louise Fishman, Brash and Fierce

      The New York Times | By Holland Cotter
      June 11, 2016
    • Louise Fishman discusses her life in art and two new exhibitions

      Artforum | By By Becky Huff Hunter
      March 29, 2016
    • Louise Fishman with Sharon Butler

      The Brooklyn Rail
      October 1, 2012
    • Abstraction's Remarkable Return

      The San Francisco Examiner | By David Bonetti
      May 7, 1999
    • Fishman's Relaxed Abstract Expressionism / Paintings enrich historical echoes

      The San Francisco Chronicle | By Kenneth Baker
      April 26, 1999
    • Immediacies of the Hand

      The New York Times | By Holland Cotter
      April 9, 1999
    • To Live and to Paint

      Review | By Lyle Rexer
      November 1, 1998
    • Louise Fishman

      The New Yorker
      November 1, 1998
  • Publications
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      Louise Fishman

      always stand ajar Nathan Kernan, 2025
      Softcover, 45 pages
      ISBN: 979-8-9899971-2-1
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  • Art fairs
    • installation view

      Art Basel Miami Beach

      Booth G4 December 6 - 8, 2024
      Van Doren Waxter will present a select group of works that embody expressionism and restraint. The variety of formalist impulses behind this concept will be...
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    • installation view

      The Art Show | ADAA

      Booth B2 October 30 - November 2, 2024
      Van Doren Waxter's booth will showcase collage works by artists Rosemarie Beck, Richard Diebenkorn, Louise Fishman, Sonia Gechtoff, Vera Molnár, Alan Shields, and Jack Tworkov....
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