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Beverly Fishman — Untitled (Opioid Addiction). This edition is a 14 Color, hand-pulled serigraph print on 130 lb Cougar White with a high gloss spot UV coating as the 15th Layer. Straight cut, numbered and signed by the artist. 30h x 20w inches. Edition of 50. $1,250.00. Louis Buhl & Co. is proud to announce a new print edition with Detroit-based artist Beverly Fishman, Untitled (Opioid Addiction). This edition merges the artist's exploratory process in paper with the sleek finish and sheen of her recognizable reliefs. Fishman's evolving exploration of glossy, pill-shaped reliefs are created to attract immediate attention, mimicking the vigorous and persuasive tactics used by drug companies and their advertising agents. Over 2 million Americans are fighting addictions to pharmaceuticals derived from opium, and medication for mood disorders and ADD/ADHD are currently as prevalent for mental illness as for recreational and occasional use. 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. 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.?. "In my work, I hope the colors and forms—even if you know nothing about them—evoke a technologically mediated world, one in which our desires are fed by the mass media and our identities are influenced by the products that we consume.". — Beverly Fishman.