Artist Talk: Beverly Fishman

The School of Art welcomes Beverly Fishman to the University of Houston for a guest lecture. Join us for a reception before the talk at 5:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall.

About the Artist
Beverly Fishman is an internationally recognized painter and sculptor who adopts the language of abstraction to explore the body, issues of identity and contemporary culture. For more than three decades, she has used imagery drawn from science, medicine and the pharmaceutical industry to promote inquiry into the effects of these institutions on both individuals and societies.

She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Philadelphia College of Art, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. For 25 years she was the head of the painting department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and she has held positions at Maryland Institute College of Art and the College of New Rochelle, Graduate Art School. Fishman has been the recipient of many awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award; an Artist Space Exhibition Grant; an NEA Fellowship Grant; and an Anonymous Was A Woman Award. Her work is included in many public and private collections around the world. Learn more at http://www.milesmcenery.com/artists/beverly-fishman.