This publication brings together a characteristically wide-ranging group
of new works by painter Louise Fishman (born 1939). The paintings in
this volume all appear as spontaneous improvisations upon an implied
grid, but vary widely in scale (from 4 x 6 inches to 96 inches wide) and
method. Paint is troweled, squeezed from the tube, diluted into a wash,
pressed on with a sheet of paper and pulled off. The mediums include
oil, watercolor, egg tempera, colored pencil, ink and graphite.
The varied nature of Fishman's work can be explained by a simple
statement from the artist herself: "My intention, always, was to not
repeat a painting, was to not repeat aspects of paintings. My intention
in painting is to keep discovering and to keep changing."