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Beverly Fishman in The Technological Sublime: Pazo Fine Art, Kensington, MD

Past exhibition
17 September - 3 November 2022
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Installation views, Beverly Fishman in The Technological Sublime, 2022. Couresty of Pazo Fine Art.
Installation views, Beverly Fishman in The Technological Sublime, 2022. Couresty of Pazo Fine Art.

Pazo Fine Art is pleased to announce The Technological Sublime, an exhibition of works by Beverly Fishman, Rockne Krebs, and Ruth Pastine. 


Beverly Fishman is a post-formalist artist whose painted objects call attention to how perception is structured in myriad cultural ways. In a social sense, her work examines how malaise, anxiety, and affect arise within limits circumscribed by industry, biology, and communication. Fishman’s multipart constructions of synthetic color operate where dissociation and engagement intersect, and suggest individual agency is shaped by habitual management of emotional responses. Three large-scale works by Fishman will be seen in this exhibition.

 

These three artists each calibrate finely-tuned qualities of light and space through their unique approaches to the dynamics of media and spectatorship. This may place their work adjacent to what is held as the “technological sublime”, a contemporary premise derived from eighteenth- century philosophical musings on the awesome forces of nature. Transfers of power from the theological to the secular, or the divine to the human, uprooted authentic experience and subjected it to instrumental challenges from all sides. This is, in short, the history of modernity. The American educator and critic Leo Marx (1919-2022) described the displacing effects of science and ideology in these very terms. Venturing hand in hand with progress, Marx proposed technology creates a “hazardous concept”, understood in part as a semantic void which language hastens to fill in the face of overwhelming change.

 

So what is the thing we routinely call technology? The meds we take each morning to help focus our attention? The entertainments we enlist to distract us each evening? The vibrations which perpetually leave us in dumbfounded states of wonder? The works of Beverly Fishman, Rockne Krebs, and Ruth Pastine imply technology, while novel and disruptive, is actually that which resists explanation because it does not yet have a name. Furthermore, in a neat inversion of dogma, what you see is not exactly what you see. The Technological Sublime offers a liberating invitation to look anew at the conditions of our reality, where acts of making become word.

 

 

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Works
  • Beverly Fishman Untitled (Digestive Problems, Anxiety, Anxiety, Anxiety), 2020 Urethane paint on wood 44 x 71 in.
    Beverly Fishman
    Untitled (Digestive Problems, Anxiety, Anxiety, Anxiety), 2020
    Urethane paint on wood
    44 x 71 in.
  • Beverly Fishman Untitled (Migraine, Anxiety, ADHD), 2019 Urethane paint on wood 77 x 84 x 2 in
    Beverly Fishman
    Untitled (Migraine, Anxiety, ADHD), 2019
    Urethane paint on wood
    77 x 84 x 2 in
  • Beverly Fishman Untitled (Pain, Opioid Addiction, Bipolar Disorder, Muscle Spasms), 2019 Urethane paint on wood 90 x 69 1/4 x 2 in
    Beverly Fishman
    Untitled (Pain, Opioid Addiction, Bipolar Disorder, Muscle Spasms), 2019
    Urethane paint on wood
    90 x 69 1/4 x 2 in
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Installation Views
  • Installation views, Beverly Fishman in The Technological Sublime, 2022. Couresty of Pazo Fine Art.

    Installation views, Beverly Fishman in The Technological Sublime, 2022.

    Couresty of Pazo Fine Art.

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  • Installation view, The Technological Sublime, featuring works by Rockne Krebs, Beverly Fishman and Ruth Pastine. (Gian Carlos Perez/Pazo Fine Art)

    Beverly Fishman: In the galleries: Rendering art through light and space

    Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, October 28, 2022

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