Pill Spill: Featuring Beverly Fishman

// February 16th, 2012 // featured // Paper Boat Creative

American artist Beverly Fishman attempts to question our ‘pill popping’ society with her latest installation ‘Addict’. A collection of 120 unique brown glass pills, from 6 – 15 inches wide were scattered amongst the floor as if having been discarded from a bottle. Both aesthetically addictive and beautifully crafted, the pills juxtaposition an enticing appeal against a negative of side effects.  She decorates colourful and attention-grabbing objects that make us forget for a minute the implications of getting hooked.

Beverly is known for her abstracted presentation of science and medicine, with a consistent approach of vibrant colours, patterns on mixed media.

Building on her other ‘pill’ works she aims to portray the message of branding within our society and how a certain industry or company can manipulate your loyalty towards a product; ultimately ending as a placebo.

Colorful medication, mesmerizing and addicting to look at.  This is, we guess, precisely what she wanted.

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