FISHMAN, Louise
A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing

A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing is the first career-spanning publication of Fishman’s works on paper from 1964 to the present. The project includes more than 100 works that have rarely been shown. A Question of Emphasis encompasses collage, oil and wax, thread, acrylic text, ink, charcoal, printmaking, oil stick, watercolor, and tempera. This full range of mediums foregrounds Fishman’s robust and dedicated practice of works on paper, which have never been studies for her large canvases. Instead, Fishman has used drawing to think through physicality, materials, and intimacy on a different register. Drawing is often perceived as a window to an artist’s interiority and a spontaneous activity that happens more readily than painting on canvas. This project is a curatorial experiment that instead follows Fishman’s lead, through drawing, to convene a community of living and historical figures that are integral to the construction of self. While centered on the artist’s hand, Fishman’s works on paper are in fact radically open and give audiences a strong perspective of artmaking as a world-making project.

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Published by Krannert Art Museum, 2021
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