Fishman, Louise
[Artist];
Casid, Jill H.
[Author];
Lord, Catherine
[Author];
Müller, Ulrike
[Interviewer]
;
Powell, Amy L.
[Editor];
Powell, Amy L.
[Writer of added text]Krannert Art Museum
Footnote:
"Publication accompanies the exhibition A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawings, organized by Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, on view August 26, 2021-February 26, 2022"--Title page verso
Description:
Foreword / Jon L. Seydl -- Louise Fishman Drawing / Amy L. Powell -- Queer expressivity; or, the art of how to do it with Louise Fishman / Jill H. Casid -- Abstracting gender, figuring drag / Catherine Lord -- Works on paper/works with paper / Ulrike Müller in conversation with Louise Fishman.
American artist Louise Fishman's (born 1939) physical and process-driven work reimagines the Abstract Expressionist model into a vehicle for dialogue about history and emotion centered in the artist's identities as Jewish, feminist and lesbian. Though she is primarily a painter, Fishman has worked with a number of different mediums to create works on paper since the early 1960s. A Question of Emphasis presents a vast selection of these works in a single volume, encompassing collage, oil and wax, thread, acrylic text, ink, charcoal, printmaking, oil stick, watercolor and tempera. Fishman conceives of her works on paper not as studies for later paintings but as discrete pieces of art, generally small- and medium-scale and frequently sculptural and tactile. New writing as well as an interview between Fishman and artist Ulrike Müller accompany a wide selection of works.00Exhibition: Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, USA (26.08.2021 - 26.02.2022)