Louise Fishman
American, 1939-2021
Iron Sharpens Iron
INV-1493
Louise Fishman
American, 1939-20211993
Iron Sharpens Iron
Louise Fishman American, 1939-2021 →oil on canvaspainting
Date
1993
Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
279.4 × 177.8 cm (110 × 70 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Robert Miller and Sarah Wittenborn Miller
In her bold and large-scale paintings, Louise Fishman expands the tradition of Abstract Expressionism through
continuous experimenting with composition and form. Exuding a dynamic interplay of fluid gesture and grid,
Iron Sharpens Iron exemplifies the vertically oriented compositions of the artist’s work of the early 1990s. Her brushstrokes evoke Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, inspired in part by her daily Buddhist meditation practice. The work’s formal iconography developed out of Fishman’s career-long investigations into the abstract and contemplative qualities of painting.
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