Amy Feldman (born 1981) is an American

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from

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Education

Amy Feldman received a BFA degree in painting from the

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase th ...

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in 2003. She then attended

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in New Brunswick, New Jersey where she received an MFA in Painting in 2008. She subsequently attended the

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an artists residency located in Madison, Maine, just outside of Skowhegan. Every year, the program accepts online applications from emerging artists from November through January, and selects 65 ...

for a nine-week residency in 2009. Feldman is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Grant (2018) and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2013).

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. The stark contrast between figure and ground in Feldman's paintings is initially arresting, then subsequently complicated, exploratory, and meditative. Feldman's bold, urgent, and large scale abstract paintings are often anthropomorphic and darkly humorous with psychologically charged imagery. Her stripped down abstract sign system addresses, among other things,

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, and the perception and transmission of

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. Feldman's artistic influences range from

Cubism Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture. Cubist subjects are analyzed, broke ...

to the works of

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, Shirley Jaffe,

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and

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. Feldman's work are in the permanent collections of the

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, the

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, the Hall Art Foundation , Schloss Derneburg Museum in Derneburg, Germany, and the Vanhaerents Art Collection in

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. She lives and works in

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

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

Selected group exhibitions

*''The Twilight Zone'' (curated by Austin Eddy): Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, California, 2024 *''All That Is Solid Melts Into Air'': Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY, 2019 *''Mutual Ritual'': 39 Great Jones, New York, NY, curated by Ugo Rondinone, 2019 *''This and That: Some Recent Acquisitions'': Hall Art Foundation , Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany, 2018 *''nonObjectives'': Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, curated by Walter Mason, 2017 *''Playground Structure'': Blain, Southern, London, UK, 2017 *''Quicktime'': University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2017 *''Heartbreak Hotel'': Invisible Exports, New York, NY, 2017 *''MCA DNA: Riot Grrrls'': Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Michael Darling, 2016-2017 *''The Congregation'', Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, New York, curated by Joshua Abelow, 2016 *''Amy Feldman, Lucio Fontana, Maximilian Schubert, Alan Wiener'': 11R Gallery, New York, New York, 2016 *''Face to Face'': Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy, curated by Eugenio Viola, 2016 *''New York Painting'': Kunstmuseum BONN, Bonn Germany, curated by Christoph Schreier, 2015 *''The Empire Strikes Back'' ARNDT Singapore, curated by Amir Shariat, 2015 *''2159 Miles'': Museo Britanico Americano, Mexico City, and Casa Blanca, San Juan, PR, curated by Brand New Gallery (Milan), 2015 *''This One's Optimistic: Pincushion'': New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, curated by Cary Smith, 2014 *''The New York Moment'': Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Etienne, France, curated by Lorand Hegyi, 2014 *''Annual Invitational Exhibition'', The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, New York, 2013 *''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

Awards

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

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Feldman, Amy American abstract painters American contemporary painters Casualist artists Minimalist artists Painters from New York (state) 21st-century American painters 21st-century American women painters Rutgers University alumni Rhode Island School of Design alumni Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni 1981 births Living people