Lisa Fishman 1
A compelling portrait linking Davis Museum Barcelona with its counterpart at Wellesley College, this painting depicts Lisa Fischman through a blurred visual language inspired by Gerhard Richter. Balancing photographic reference with expressive brushwork, it reflects on portraiture, institutional identity, and the museum as artistic medium.
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Davis Lisboa, Lisa Fishman 1, 2012. Oil on linen, 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm (11.8 x 11.8 x 1,38 in)
This portrait brings into relation two institutions that share a name while occupying very different cultural and geographic frameworks: Davis Museum Barcelona and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. Centered on Lisa Fischman, who directed the Wellesley museum from 2010 to 2024, the painting unfolds as both image and institutional echo.
Drawing on the visual language of Gerhard Richter’s blurred photo-paintings, the work holds the figure in a suspended state between photographic reference and painterly construction. The surface remains unstable, allowing the portrait to emerge through gestures that resist fixed clarity and conventional representation.
Its brushwork introduces a measured tension that complicates the authority traditionally associated with portraiture and museum culture alike. Rather than presenting certainty, the painting sustains ambiguity, using figuration as a space in which image, memory, and institutional meaning remain open.
Produced within The Painting Section from Davis Museum Barcelona, the work belongs to the only section of the museum in which artworks are available for acquisition. More broadly, it extends the museum’s ongoing exploration of the institution as artistic form, where exhibition structure, authorship, and display become part of the work itself.
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| Weight | 2 kg |
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| Dimensions | 30 × 30 × 3.5 cm |
