Rochelle Feinstein
{{Short description|American artist}}
{{Infobox artist
| birth_place = Bronx, NY, United States
| nationality = American
| education = University of Minnesota (MFA, 1978)
Pratt Institute (BFA, 1975)
| known_for = painting, prints, installation
| awards = American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Purchase Prize
Anonymous Was A Woman Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1947}}
| website = http://rochellefeinstein.com
}}
Rochelle Feinstein (born 1947, Bronx, NY) is a contemporary American visual artist who makes abstract paintings, prints, video, sculpture, and installations that explore language and contemporary culture.{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=Exhibitions - Rochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image |url=http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/rochelle-feinstein-image-of-an-image |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329034419/https://bronxmuseum.org/exhibition/rochelle-feinstein-image-of-an-image/ |archive-date=29 March 2023 |access-date=4 March 2019 |website=Bronx Museum of the Arts}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Faculty Emerita: Rochelle Feinstein, Painter and printmaker |url=http://art.yale.edu/RochelleFeinstein |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815184244/https://www.art.yale.edu/rochelle-feinstein |archive-date=15 August 2022 |access-date=11 April 2019 |website=Yale School of Art}}
In 2018, the Bronx Museum held the first comprehensive survey of her work in the United States, [http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/rochelle-feinstein-image-of-an-image 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).{{Cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/news/85171/Rochelle-Feinstein-s-first-comprehensive-retrospective-of-the-last-25-years-on-view-in-Geneva#.XK6jRi3Mw6g|title=Rochelle Feinstein's first comprehensive retrospective of the last 25 years on view in Geneva|website=artdaily.com|access-date=2019-04-11}}
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).{{Cite web|url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/rochelle-feinstein|title=Rochelle Feinstein|date=2012-05-07|website=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University|language=en|access-date=2019-04-11}}
Feinstein taught at Bennington College from 1980{{Cite web |title=New Work (Exhibition Invitation) |website=Bennington College |url=https://hdl.handle.net/11209/8190 |hdl=11209/8190 |hdl-access=free}}{{Cite web |title = 1987 Commencement Program |website=Bennington College |url=https://hdl.handle.net/11209/8727 |hdl = 11209/8727 |hdl-access=free}} through 1994,{{Cite web|url = http://montalvoarts.org/participants/rochelle_feinstein/|title = Montalvo Arts Center {{!}} Rochelle Feinstein|website = montalvoarts.org|access-date = 2016-03-05}} when she was appointed Professor of Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art. 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.{{Cite news |last=Lieberman |first=Justin |date=January 2011 |title=Rochelle Feinstein |work=BOMB Magazine |issue=114 |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/rochelle-feinstein/ |access-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922041004/https://bombmagazine.org/articles/rochelle-feinstein/ |archive-date=22 September 2022}}{{Cite web |last=Hirsch |first=Faye |date=31 August 2016 |title=The Big Picture |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/the-big-picture-63196/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230329035232/https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/the-big-picture-63196/ |archive-date=29 March 2023 |access-date=28 March 2023 |website=ARTnews |language=en-US}}
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"{{Cite web|url=https://centre.ch/en/exhibitions/rochelle-feinstein-in-anticipation-of-womens-history-month/|title=Rochelle Feinstein – In Anticipation of Women's History Month – Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève|website=centre.ch|language=en|access-date=2019-04-11}} always seeming to respond with wit and bite to contemporary American culture. 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."{{cite news |last1=Courteau |first1=Rose |title=Rochelle Feinstein Makes Work That Is Purposefully Hard to Define |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/t-magazine/rochelle-feinstein-you-again.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fa-mBeSYBM8AI8HYU7TBMGF4pi8np4kLGfUYG-9-nx8TbiWrKUgl0wbI |access-date=29 January 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=27 January 2022}}
Selected exhibitions
Most notably Feinstein's work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2014-biennial/Rochelle-Feinstein|title=Rochelle Feinstein|website=whitney.org|language=en|access-date=2019-04-11}} 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. 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).
Recent solo exhibitions include On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (2014{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/arts/design/rochelle-feinstein-love-vibe.html|title=Rochelle Feinstein: 'Love Vibe'|last=Rosenberg|first=Karen|date=2014-04-24|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2016-03-05|issn=0362-4331}}/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).
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).{{Cite web|url=http://www.artspace.com/rochelle_feinstein|title=Rochelle Feinstein|website=Artspace|access-date=2016-03-05}}
Feinstein's work was included in various faculty exhibitions at Bennington College.{{Cite web |title=Faculty Exhibition 1993 |website=Bennington College |language=en-US |url=https://hdl.handle.net/11209/8126 |hdl=11209/8126 |hdl-access=free}}{{Cite news |title=Faculty Notes |newspaper=Bennington Today |volume=I |date=March 1986 |language=en-US |hdl=11209/8572 |hdl-access=free}}{{Cite web |title=Elizabeth Reed Keller '38 Memorial Exhibition (Exhibition Invitation) |website=Bennington College |url=https://hdl.handle.net/11209/8266 |hdl=11209/8266 |hdl-access=free}}
Awards and residencies
Feinstein has been awarded a number of grants, residencies and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1996),{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/rochelle-feinstein/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Rochelle Feinstein|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-11}} an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship (2012–13), a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant (1999).{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/rochelle-feinstein|title=Rochelle Feinstein :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|access-date=2018-04-05}}
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).
References
External links
- {{Official Website|http://rochellefeinstein.com/}}
- [http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/rochelle-feinstein/ Guggenheim Fellows]
- [https://ocula.com/art-galleries/campoli-presti/ Campoli Presti at Ocula]
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Category:American women artists
Category:Pratt Institute alumni
Category:University of Minnesota alumni
Category:Artists from Queens, New York
Category:American women painters
Category:Artists from the Bronx
Category:20th-century American artists