Rochelle Feinstein “You Again”

Rochelle Feinstein “You Again”

Bridget Donahue

This event has ended.

Someone Else’s Hand, Someone Else’s Name, Something for Everyone, Someone Else’s Country. Gold joss paper on linen. It’s not real gold, but then again it’s not real currency. Its worth is only realized when it goes up in flames. Youthful stationery, monographed with a name you don’t respond to anymore. A note turned into a map, the inscribed words from an ex falling flatter than the surface, orienting a trajectory that always returns to this terrain—hitting a wall, looking for a way in. Or out.

In the age of screens, the newspaper is more a phantom limb than the childhood nickname, but the Amazon cardboard box that carries the supplies becomes a thing of value, shipped directly from the “fulfillment center”, now flattened, haptic, both the foundation and the result.

Imagine, in the afterlife, being greeted by combustible gilded paper, the earthly need to get by still pulsating, the pattern, the status quo, the transaction. Was Krauss correct when she claimed the power of the grid “provides us with a release into belief”? Grids, with their sharp angles and modernist tropes, with all the rules and expectations they set forth, the outcomes they still fail to explain. Here something is subversively and subtly bent, a square that becomes an ouroboros. Digested and spit back out. You Again.

- Sabrina Tamar
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Krauss, Rosalind. “Grids.” October, vol. 9, The MIT Press, 1979, p. 54

Campoli Presti, Bridget Donahue, Hannah Hoffman, Nina Johnson, CANDICE MADEY, and Galerie Francesca Pia are pleased to announce a six-venue, international exhibition of new and historic work by Rochelle Feinstein, opening in January and February 2022.

Feinstein is a legendary painter whose work and ideas about abstraction have influenced generations of artists. Over the past four decades, she has deflated the dogmas of modernism with humor and verve, liberally borrowing from different schools of painting, as well as other mediums, including drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video, and installation. Though it takes myriad forms, her singular project always centers painting within culture at large. She moves freely through the history of late 20th-century painting, rejoicing in materiality while poking holes in the notion of pure painting.

Titled You Again, the exhibition features several recent bodies of work, arranged thematically by venue, which reflect upon this time of turmoil and anxiety with mordant wit. Each venue presents historic work alongside newer work that responds to, teases, expands on, or complicates the themes of the earlier examples. The six-venue exhibition format functions as a spatial representation of Rochelle’s many-faceted practice, giving a birdseye view on decades of her work. You Again will be accompanied by a broadsheet publication that integrates text and images from all six exhibitions, available at each gallery.

Born in 1947, Rochelle Feinstein is a longstanding and deeply respected member of the New York art community. A major survey exhibition of Feinstein’s work originated at the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2016), and subsequently traveled to Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (2016), Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2017), and the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2018-2019). Other solo exhibitions have taken place at Kunsthaus Baselland (2018) and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (2012). Feinstein is Professor Emerita of Painting and Printmaking at Yale University (2017). Among her numerous accolades, she is a recent recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize Jules Guerin Fellowship in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome (2017-2018). Her work is in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; the Pérez Art Museum, Miami; and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.

Media

• Painting
• Installation

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