Deceptively simple, Amy Feldman’s large acrylic paintings feature loosely geometric motifs set against areas of bare canvas. New York Times critic Roberta Smith once noted “a kind of back-to-basics abstraction characterized by simple forms, not much color and an emphasis on process.” In letting the paint drip where it will, Feldman seeks to retain the casualness of her preliminary sketches, often based on her surroundings, yet she also strives for poise. “I think, the unfinished (or seemingly unfinished) quality in my work feels like it is in a dialogue with the landscape … the forms are carefully articulated yet under-polished,” she explains.
Amy Feldman (b.1981) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and her Master of Fine Arts from Rutgers University. Recent solo exhibitions include Breath Myth (2017), Blain Southern, Berlin; Psyche Shade(2016), Ratio 3, SanFrancisco, CA; Good Gloom (2016), Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago; Moon Decorum (2015) Brand New Gallery; Trice Electric (2015) ANNAELLE, Stockholm. Select group exhibitions include New York Painting, curated by Christoph Schreier, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (2015); 2159 Miles, curated by Brand New Gallery, Milan, Museo Britanico Americano, Mexico City, Mexico (2015); The Empire Strikes Back, curated by Amir Shariat, Arndt Singapore(2015); Amy Feldman and Michael Rey, curated by Joshua Abelow, Freddy, Baltimore, MD (2014); This One’s Optimistic: Pin Cushion, curated by Cary Smith, New Britain Museum of American Art (2014); Perfume, curated by Elena Brugnano, Jan Kaps, Cologne, Germany (2014); The New York Moment, curated by Lorand Hegyi, Musée d’art Moderne, St. Etienne, France (2014); Brian Belott, Paul De Muro, Amy Feldman, Galerie Zürcher, Paris, France (2014); The Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition, The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (2013); Decenter, curated by Daniel S. Palmer and Andrianna Campbell, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY (2013).
Feldman’s work has been reviewed and featured in ArtForum, The New York Times, Art in America, Art Info, Manhattan Magazine, Time Out New York, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, The New Criterion, NY Arts Magazine, Figaro Scope, Télérama Sortir, Le Quotidien de l’Art, Omkonst, The Art Economist, Saatchi Online Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Dust Magazine, Vogue Mexico, andThe Huffington Post, among other publications.
Feldman is Visiting Faculty at Rutgers University and Cooper Union in 2015. She was Visiting Faculty at The Cooper Union in 2014 and an artist-in-residence and Visiting Faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University from 2008-2009. Feldman received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2013 and was also nominated for The Academy of Arts and Letters Award. The Dedalus Foundation awarded Feldman the Robert Motherwell Fellowship at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She received a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant and fellowships from VCUArts and the Fountainhead Foundation, Richmond, Virginia; The Henry Street Settlement at the Abrons Art Center, New York, New York; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York; The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Brooklyn, New York; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine. Feldman was recently an artist-in-residence at Chandelier Creative, Montauk, New York and at Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago, IL.
Feldman lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.