Rochelle Feinstein

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Rochelle Feinstein
Born1947 (age 75–76)
Bronx, NY, United States
Nationality American
Education University of Minnesota (MFA, 1978)
Pratt Institute (BFA, 1975)
Known forpainting, prints, installation
Awards American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Purchase Prize
Anonymous Was A Woman Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
Website http://rochellefeinstein.com

Rochelle Feinstein (born 1947, Bronx, NY) is a contemporary American visual artist that makes abstract paintings, prints, video, sculpture, and installations that explore language and contemporary culture. [1] [2] She was appointed professor in painting and printmaking at the Yale School of Art in 1994, where she also served as director of graduate studies, until becoming professor emerita in 2017. [3]

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In 2018, the Bronx Museum held the first comprehensive survey of her work in the United States, Rochelle Feinstein:Image of an Image, which traveled there from three European venues: the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland (2016), Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (2016), and kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2017). [4]

Feinstein currently lives and works in New York City and is represented by Francesca Pia, Zurich and Campoli Presti, London/Paris.

Early life and education

Feinstein received her BFA from Pratt Institute (1975) and her MFA from The University of Minnesota (1978). [5]

Feinstein taught at Bennington College from 1980 [6] [7] through 1994, [8] when she was appointed Professor of Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art. [3] She was one of the first women to be granted tenure at Yale University in the Visual Arts. Feinstein has been making paintings, photographs, videos, and installations for over 30 years. [2] [9]

Work

Feinstein's work cannot be easily categorized, due to the way she employs various styles and mediums including "silkscreen, photography and assemblage, hard-edged graphic compositions as well as expressionist factures" [10] always seeming to respond with wit and bite to contemporary American culture. [1] Rose Courteau wrote in the New York Times that her work "is known for its unpredictability and ironic allusions to pop culture and art history." [11]

Selected exhibitions

Most notably Feinstein's work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art [12] and in 2018, the first retrospective of her work in the United States, Rochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image, was shown at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, in New York City. [1] In Anticipation of Women's History Month at The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève (2016) was the first iteration of Image of an Image, which traveled to Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (2016) and kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2017). [10]

Recent solo exhibitions include On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (2014 [13] /2013/2011); Higher Pictures, New York, NY (2013); Art Production Fund, New York, NY (2009); Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY (2008); The Suburban, Chicago, IL (2008). [10]

Recent group exhibitions include Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis MO (2015); The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (2015); University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL (2014); Silberkuppe, Berlin (2014); Martos Gallery, New York, NY (2014); 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (2014); New Galerie, Paris, France (2012); Soloway, Brooklyn, NY (2013, 2012); Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY (2012); International Print Center, New York, NY (2012); White Flag, St. Louis, MO (2011); Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2010). [14] [10]

Feinstein's work was included in various faculty exhibitions at Bennington College. [15] [16] [17]

Awards and residencies

Feinstein has been awarded a number of grants, residencies and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), [18] an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship (2012–13), [5] a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant (1999). [19]

Collections

Feinstein's work is included in numerous prominent museum and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). [10]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Lieberman, Justin (January 2011). "Rochelle Feinstein". BOMB Magazine . No. 114. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Faculty Emerita: Rochelle Feinstein, Painter and printmaker". Yale School of Art . Archived from the original on 15 August 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
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  6. ↑ "New Work (Exhibition Invitation)". Bennington College. hdl: 11209/8190 .
  7. ↑ "1987 Commencement Program". Bennington College. hdl: 11209/8727 .
  8. ↑ "Montalvo Arts Center | Rochelle Feinstein". montalvoarts.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  9. ↑ Hirsch, Faye (31 August 2016). "The Big Picture". ARTnews . Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
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  12. ↑ "Rochelle Feinstein". whitney.org. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  13. ↑ Rosenberg, Karen (2014-04-24). "Rochelle Feinstein: 'Love Vibe'". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  14. ↑ "Rochelle Feinstein". Artspace. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  15. ↑ "Faculty Exhibition 1993". Bennington College. hdl: 11209/8126 .
  16. ↑ "Faculty Notes". Bennington Today. Vol. I. March 1986. hdl: 11209/8572 .
  17. ↑ "Elizabeth Reed Keller '38 Memorial Exhibition (Exhibition Invitation)". Bennington College. hdl: 11209/8266 .
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