Artwork copyright Jeffrey Bishop. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission.

Artwork copyright Jeffrey Bishop. Photo courtesy of the artist, 1986.

Lilyiron, 1983

Jeffrey Bishop
American (born 1949)

Location: Nisqually Middle School, Olympia

About the Artwork

Artist Jeffrey Bishop included the painting Lilyiron in his solo-exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum in 1983. He filled the horizontal composition with abstracted forms that emerge and retreat into space. He describes these forms as "facets of an ideal or mental architecture." The title refers to the tip of a harpoon, and he notes that this piece has a nautical theme.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with North Thurston Public Schools.

About the Artist

New York City-based artist Jeffrey Bishop creates abstract paintings, installations, and works on paper. He notes, "I draw obliquely from a variety of interests. Physics, cosmology, architecture, poetics and technology are among subjects which consume me but which I pursue and parse with a rather amateur kind of passion." Born in Berkeley, California, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. He received a Graduate Certificate from Boston Museum School, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1977.