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Stack (A + B + C ), 2019. 21 color, hand-pulled serigraph triptych print on 130lb Cougar White with high gloss spot UV as the 22nd Layer. Straight cut, numbered and signed by the artist. 16h x 13w inches each. Edition of 45. $950.00. Louis Buhl & Co. is proud to announce a limited tripytch edition with Detroit-based artist Beverly Fishman titled Stack (A + B +C). Her evolving exploration of glossy, pill-shaped reliefs mimic the vigorous and persuasive tactics used by drug companies and their advertising agents. An eagerness to solve all our problems with a prescription points to a global dilemma that resonates on an ethical, social and emotional level for Fishman, who uses jarring contrasts in hue to destabilize her viewer. It is by transforming the iconography of medicine and translating it into the realm of art that Fishman forces us to consider our own attraction, revulsion, and dependence on Big Pharma. Like her past editions with Louis Buhl & Co., Stack (A + B +C) merges the artist's exploratory process in paper with the sleek finish and sheen of her recognizable reliefs. "This prints are based on the handmade collages that I create in order to try out color and shape combinations for my large scale polychrome reliefs. The shapes are based on pharmaceuticals, while the colors are derived from a variety of different color palettes, both natural and artificial. My polychrome reliefs, which I began to fabricate in wood and urethane paint in 2012, explore our contemporary global condition in which drugs construct and contest our identities." - Beverly Fishman.