Andrew Suggs is a curator, writer, and artist from Appalachian Tennessee who lives in New York. Andrew’s work and research focuses on art and AIDS, queer art and artists, and performance.
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Andrew Suggs is a curator, writer, and artist from Appalachian Tennessee who lives in New York. Andrew’s work and research focuses on art and AIDS, queer art and artists, and performance.
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Louise Fishman: My City
Assistant curator, catalog essayist
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
September 6 – October 19, 2019
My City features recent paintings and marks a return home for Fishman, who was born in Philadelphia, where she spent her early life and attended Tyler School of Art at Temple University, before settling in New York.
Louise Fishman’s career spanned over five decades, throughout which she produced tough and uncompromising work that is at once architectonic and poetic. Her paintings are layered upon an improvised structural grid assembled out of strokes, skeins, and slashes of oil paint, applied with large, serrated trowels and scrapers, along with more traditional paint brushes—and sometimes, her hands. Fishman’s work celebrates the process of painting and its materiality in works where containment and release are palpably visible. She adds, scrapes away, and re-applies paint, working and reworking canvases over a long period of time.
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Louise Fishman (header image): Arcanum, 2015, oil on linen, 74 x 88 inches. Installation views, Louise Fishman: My City, September 6 - October 29, 2019, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia. Louise Fishman (left to right): Antica Locanda Montin, 2016, oil on linen, 60 x 50 inches; Zero, 2016, oil on linen, 74 x 88 inches; As Is, 2017, oil on linen, 96 x 72 inches.