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Visually provocative abstractions by Beverly Fishman at Galerie Richard in New York

NEW YORK, N.Y.- In a new series of visually provocative abstractions Beverly Fishman explores the fast evolving relationship between our bodies and contemporary technology. Her vibrantly colored paintings and sculptures have their genesis in diverse patterns and iconography drawn from scientific imaging systems and pharmaceutical packaging. By manipulating and layering these representational traces of the body into dense, psychedelic compositions, Fishman raises questions about the vulnerability of human identity in an increasingly digitized and electronically-mediated world. Beverly Fishman’s paintings are configurations of horizontal panels of polished stainless steel, each containing dense visual fields woven from neural imagery, sounds waves, EEG graphs and other technological data. These accumulate into optically dazzling moiré patterns that are interrupted by images of drug capsules and molecular symbols. Painted in enamel on mirrored metal, the dynamic