Rochelle Feinstein
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. 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. 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).
Rochelle Feinstein
- Birthplace
- Bronx, NY, United States
- 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
- Born
- 1947
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · Anonymous Was A Woman Award · Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award
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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. 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. 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).
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Biography
Biography
Feinstein currently lives and works in New York City and is represented by Francesca Pia, Zurich and Campoli Presti, London/Paris.
Rochelle Feinstein studied at University of Minnesota and Pratt Institute. Positions recorded include professor emeritus. Work by Rochelle Feinstein is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art and Cleveland Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman Award and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award.
Key facts
Key facts
• Birthplace — Bronx, NY, United States • 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 • Born — 1947 • Website — http: rochellefeinstein.com
Early life and education
Early life and education
Feinstein received her BFA from Pratt Institute (1975) and her MFA from The University of Minnesota (1978). Feinstein taught at Bennington College from 1980 through 1994, 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.
Work
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" 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."
Selected exhibitions
Selected exhibitions
Most notably Feinstein's work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art 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 /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). Feinstein's work was included in various faculty exhibitions at Bennington College.
Collections
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).
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Primary material
Documents and archives
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q16204299: Rochelle Feinstein
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reference work
- “Rochelle Feinstein”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards and residencies
Feinstein has been awarded a number of grants, residencies and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), 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).
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
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- 1.Exhibitions - Rochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image. Bronx Museum of the Arts. 2019.
- 2.Faculty Emerita: Rochelle Feinstein, Painter and printmaker. Yale School of Art.
- 3.Rochelle Feinstein's first comprehensive retrospective of the last 25 years on view in Geneva. artdaily.com.
- 4.Rochelle Feinstein. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 2012-05-07.
- 5.New Work (Exhibition Invitation). Bennington College.
- 6.1987 Commencement Program. Bennington College.
- 7.Montalvo Arts Center Rochelle Feinstein. montalvoarts.org.
- 8.Lieberman, Justin. Rochelle Feinstein. BOMB Magazine. 114. January 2011.
- 9.Hirsch, Faye. The Big Picture. ARTnews. 31 August 2016.
- 10.Rochelle Feinstein – In Anticipation of Women's History Month – Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. centre.ch.
- 11.Courteau, Rose. Rochelle Feinstein Makes Work That Is Purposefully Hard to Define. The New York Times. 27 January 2022.
- 12.Rochelle Feinstein. whitney.org.
- 13.Rosenberg, Karen. Rochelle Feinstein: 'Love Vibe'. The New York Times. 2014-04-24. 0362-4331.
- 14.Rochelle Feinstein. Artspace.
- 15.Faculty Exhibition 1993. Bennington College.
- 16.Faculty Notes. Bennington Today. I. March 1986.
- 17.Elizabeth Reed Keller '38 Memorial Exhibition (Exhibition Invitation). Bennington College.
- 18.John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Rochelle Feinstein.
- 19.Rochelle Feinstein :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts. www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org.
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