My life’s work is predicated on a personal visual language that I have been working on for over three decades.
I try to paint the colors that I hold in my mind of a bird that flew away.
The forms in my square paintings are coalescing and the shapes and palettes are more focused. These are simpler compositions – quieter/older markings of memories. The reduction process has helped me to clarify what is most important.
A language of Shapes, Palette and Linear Movement.
Keep only the essential.
About the Artist
Barbara Ellen Fishman graduated Boston University with her BFA and continued her studies at New York University under the tutelage of Chuck Close to earn her Masters of Fine Arts in Painting.
Her associations over the decades have been with the National Association of Women Artists, The Graphic Eye Gallery, Audubon Artists and the Art Advisory Council of the Port Washington Library.
Her numerous exhibitions include: The Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, National Arts Club of New York, The Nassau County Fine Arts Museum, Hecksher Museum, C.W. Post’s Hutchins Gallery, The Lotus Club, Ward Nasse Gallery, Salmagundi Arts Club, Jehangir Gallery in New Delhi among many others.
Ms. Fishman has garnered such awards as the Gold Award at the Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, the Janet Turner Memorial Award (National Association of Women Artists), Louis Lozowick Award (Audubon Artists National Arts Club), Special Distinction Award (Suburban Art League) to name just a few.
Ms. Fishman lives in Port Washington, New York and works in her studio there and in West Dover, Vermont.