Full of active color and form, Night Shining White presents a loosely woven fabric of brushstrokes, matter, space, and light. Skeins of black float like yarn before a shimmering field, separating viewer from background while allowing flashes of white and blue light to shine through. Fishman brought controlled force and physicality to the painting through large gestural brushstrokes, scraped passages, and raw color troweled onto the surface.
Born in Philadelphia, Fishman earned degrees from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and the University of Illinois before moving to New York. Her work entered major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Jewish Museum, both in New York, as well as the Art Institute of Chicago. She received three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work appeared in three Whitney Biennials. Her 2016 retrospective at the Neuberger Museum of Art traveled nationally.
