Pill Spill (Smaller Pill)

Artist Beverly Fishman (American, b. 1955)

Date2011

DimensionsSmall pill: Diam (at center): 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm); L: 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm).

MediumHand-blown glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of the artist

Object number

2012.11A

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02A, Wolfe

DescriptionCapsule-shaped sculpture in various colors and patterns of transparent and opaque hand-blown glass, typically displayed on the floor as per their title, Pill Spill. Differently colored and patterned on each half, divided by a visible seam much like an actual pill capsule: one half of the smaller pill is transparent turquoise, its other half vertically striped in yellow and orange Two capsule-shaped sculptures in various colors and patterns of transparent and opaque, hand-blown glass, typically displayed on the floor as per their title, Pill Spill. Both capsules are differently colored and patterned on each half, divided by a visible seam much like an actual pill capsule: one half of the smaller pill is transparent turquoise, its other half vertically striped in yellow and orange; one half of the larger pill is an opaque pale blue/sea green, the tint of which darkens toward one end, its other half diagonally striped in black and white.

Published References"Recent Important Acquisitions", New Glass Review, 34, 2013, repr. (col.) p. 108.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Building on the Future, August 12–November 20, 2011.Comparative ReferencesThe two Pill Spill sculptures in question did not appear in these publications, though in some recent cases other works from the Pill Spill project have: See also 2012 Modern Painters, Hot List, March 2012 (photo) Juxtapoz Magazine, March 2012 (photo) The Urban Glass Quarterly, Number 126, Spring 2012 (9 images) Kuspit, Donald, “Deceptive Pleasures,” Artnet, January 2012 (photo) Fyfe, Joe, “In Conversation: Joe Fyfe Interviews Beverly Fishman,” NYARTS, January 2012 (photo) Gleisner, Jacquelyn, “Praxis Makes Perfect | Trial & Error: On Teaching with Beverly Fishman,” art:21, February 2012 (photo) “‘Addict’ Glass Pills by Beverly Fishman,” Artstormer, February 2012 (photo) “Color Theory,” Style Hybrid, February 2012 (photo) Brownstein, Charles, “Big Science,” Vapor Trail, February 2012 (photo) “At Galerie Richard, A Dose Of Glass-Blown Drug Capsules By Beverly Fishman,” arts.observer, February 2012 (photo) Lieberman, Claire, “Transfer of Meaning: The Momentum of Abstract Painting,” ArtExperience NYC, Vol. I, No. 7, Spring 2012 (photo) 2011 No Object is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection (Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Museum of Art, 2011) 2010 Rani Molla, “David Richard Contemporary Takes on Abstract View on Drugs and More,” Santa Fe Reporter, 21 June 2010 (photo) Brandauer, Aline, “Tradition and Transgression,” Art and Antiques, Summer 2010 Battista, Kathy, Future Natural (Santa Fe, NM: David Richard Contemporary, 2010)