Amy Feldman

Amy Feldman
Mr & Mrs, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 75" x 80"
Born	1981 (age 43–44) New Windsor, New York, U.S.
Known for	Painting
Website	amyfeldmanstudio.com

Amy Feldman (born 1981) is an American abstract painter from Brooklyn, New York.

Education

Amy Feldman received a BFA degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 2003. ^[1] She then attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey where she received an MFA in Painting in 2008. ^[1] She subsequently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture for a nine-week residency in 2009.^{[ citation needed ]}

Feldman is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Grant (2018) ^[2] and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2013). ^{[1] [3]}

Work

Feldman's work has been shown in galleries and museums since 2008. Her work is planned and spontaneously painted with loosely geometric, graphic gestures in whites to dark grays on various whites to gray grounds. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

The stark contrast between figure and ground in Feldman's paintings is initially arresting, then subsequently complicated, exploratory, and meditative. ^[8] Feldman's bold, urgent, and large scale abstract paintings are often anthropomorphic and darkly humorous with psychologically charged imagery. ^{[9] [10] [11] [12]} Her stripped down abstract sign system addresses, among other things, topology, morphology, and the perception and transmission of information ^[13] .

Feldman's artistic influences range from Cubism to the works of Henri Matisse, ^[14] Jean Arp, Ellsworth Kelly, Shirley Jaffe, Mary Heilmann ^[15] and Robert Ryman. ^[16]

Feldman's work are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art ^[17] in Chicago, the Sheldon Museum of Art ^[18] in Lincoln, Nebraska, the Hall Art Foundation | Schloss Derneburg Museum ^[19] in Derneburg, Germany, and the Vanhaerents Art Collection ^[20] in Brussels, Belgium. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Good Fortune: Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, Austria, 2025 ^[21]
• Quick Epic: Knust Kunz Gallery, Munich, Germany, 2023 ^[22]
• Heart Arts: Anna Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023 ^[23]
• Goodnight Light: Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland, 2022 ^[24]
• Mothercolor: Eva Presenhuber, New York City, New York, 2021 ^[25]
• Counter Ground: ANNAELLE Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018 ^[26]
• Nerve Reserve: James Cohan Gallery, New York City, New York, 2017 ^[27]
• Breath Myth: Blain|Southern, Berlin, Germany, 2017 ^[28]
• Psyche Shade: Ratio 3, San Francisco, California, 2016 ^[29]
• Good Gloom: Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, Illinois, 2016 ^[30]
• Moon Decorum: Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2015 ^[31]
• Trice Electric: ANNAELLE Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015 ^[32]
• High Sign: Blackston Gallery, New York City, New York, 2014 ^[33]
• Gray Area: Sorry, We're Closed Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2014 ^[34]
• Stark Types: ANNAELLE Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013 ^[35]
• Raw Graces: Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2013 ^[36]
• Dark Selects: Blackston Gallery, New York City, New York, 2012 ^[37]

Selected group exhibitions

• The Twilight Zone (curated by Austin Eddy): Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, California, 2024 ^[38]
• All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY, 2019 ^[39]
• Mutual Ritual: 39 Great Jones, New York, NY, curated by Ugo Rondinone, 2019 ^[40]
• This and That: Some Recent Acquisitions: Hall Art Foundation | Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany, 2018 ^[41]
• nonObjectives: Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, curated by Walter Mason, 2017 ^[42]
• Playground Structure: Blain|Southern, London, UK, 2017 ^[43]
• Quicktime: University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2017^{[ citation needed ]}
• Heartbreak Hotel: Invisible Exports, New York, NY, 2017 ^[44]
• MCA DNA: Riot Grrrls: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Michael Darling, 2016-2017 ^[45]
• The Congregation, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, New York, curated by Joshua Abelow, 2016 ^[46]
• Amy Feldman, Lucio Fontana, Maximilian Schubert, Alan Wiener: 11R Gallery, New York, New York, 2016 ^[47]
• Face to Face: Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy, curated by Eugenio Viola, 2016 ^[48]
• New York Painting: Kunstmuseum BONN, Bonn Germany, curated by Christoph Schreier, 2015 ^[49]
• The Empire Strikes Back ARNDT Singapore, curated by Amir Shariat, 2015 ^[50]
• 2159 Miles: Museo Britanico Americano, Mexico City, and Casa Blanca, San Juan, PR, curated by Brand New Gallery (Milan), 2015 ^[51]
• This One's Optimistic: Pincushion: New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, curated by Cary Smith, 2014^{[ citation needed ]}
• The New York Moment: Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Etienne, France, curated by Lorand Hegyi, 2014 ^[52]
• Annual Invitational Exhibition, The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, New York, 2013 ^[53]
• An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show: DECENTER: Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Art Center, New York City, New York, curated by Daniel Palmer and Andrianna Campbell, 2013^{[ citation needed ]}

Awards

• The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2021 ^[54]
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2018 ^[55]
• Casa Wabi Residency, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2014 ^[56]
• Chandelier Creative Residency, Montauk, New York, 2014^{[ citation needed ]}
• Annual 2013 Painters & Sculptors Grant, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, New York, 2013 ^[57]
• Andree Stone Emerging Artist Prize, Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2013 ^[58]
• The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Fellowship, 2012-2013^{[ citation needed ]}
• Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Art Center AIRspace Residency, 2011-2012^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Robert Motherwell Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, 2011-2012 ^[59]
• Yaddo Fellowship, 2011 ^[60]
• New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, 2011 ^[61]
• VCUarts Fountainhead Arts Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University 2008-2009 ^[62]

Further reading

• Rafael Rivas, Giving a F@*%: Forms of Feminism in Response to Riot Grrrls, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, May 23, 2017’’
• Osman Can Yerebakan, Amy Feldman - Nerve Reserve, Artspeak, May 6, 2017
• Christoph Schreier, "Painting as Pictorial Art New York Painting in the 21st Century", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Hirmer, 2015
• Barry Schwabsky, "The Zeitgeist of No Zeitgeist", The Nation, January 26, 2015
• Amanda Dalla Villa Adams, Amy Feldman, Artforum, 2015
• Michael Wilson, Amy Feldman, Artforum, 2014
• Howard Hurst, "Who Has the Cure for "Zombie Formalism"?", Hyperallergic, December 17, 2014
• Raphael Rubinstein, "Amy Feldman's Condensed Poetics", catalogue essay for solo exhibition: High Sign, 2014
• Barry Schwabsky, "Great Gray", catalogue essay for solo exhibition: Stark Types, 2013
• Jonathan Curiel, Amy Feldman's New Western Vistas, The San Francisco Weekly, Mar 20, 2013 Archived October 28, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
• Nirmala Nataraj, "Amy Feldman Melds Poise, Rough Edges", The San Francisco Chronicle, March 6, 2013
• Gregory Lind, "Amy Feldman", catalogue essay for solo exhibition: Raw Graces, 2013
• Amanda Parmer, "Amy Feldman: Blackston", Art in America, October 2012, Issue No. 9, p. 174-175
• Roberta Smith, "Art in Review, Amy Feldman: Dark Selects", The New York Times, Friday July 13, 2012
• Stephen Westfall, "Tough Love", catalogue essay for solo exhibition: Dark Selects, 2012

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External links

• Official website