Amy Feldman received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 2003. Her honors concentration was in art history, theory, and criticism. She then attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey where she received an MFA in Painting in 2008. She subsequently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture for a nine-week residency in 2009.
Work
Amy Feldman's work has been shown in galleries and museums since 2008. Her work is planned, but 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, impactful, 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, asymmetry and the perception and transmission of information. Feldman's artistic influences range from Cubism to the works of Jean Arp, Ellsworth Kelly, Shirley Jaffe, and Mary Heilmann.
Feldman is represented by ANNAELLE Gallery in Stockholm, Blain|Southern in Berlin and London, Brand New Gallery in Milan, James Cohan Gallery in New York, and Ratio 3 in San Francisco.
Feldman's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska.. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Nerve Reserve, James Cohan Gallery, New York City, New York, April 2017
Breath Myth, Blain|Southern, Berlin, Germany, February 2017
Psyche Shade, Ratio 3, San Francisco, California, September 2016
Good Gloom, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, Illinois, May 2016
Amy Feldman, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016
Moon Decorum, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2015
Trice Electric, ANNAELLE Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
nonObjectives, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, May - July, 2017
Quicktime, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, March - April, 2017
Heartbreak Hotel, Invisible Exports, New York, NY, February – April, 2017
MCA DNA: Riot Grrrls, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Michael Darling, Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
The Congregation, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, New York, curated by Joshua Abelow, 2016
Summerzcool: A Group Exhibition, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, Texas, 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
I Know You Got Soul, ARNDT Singapore, curated by Amir Shariat, 2015
2159 Miles, Museo Britanico Americano, Mexico City, and Casa Blanca, San Juan, PR, by All Around Art and Brand New Gallery (Milan), 2015
This One's Optimistic: Pincushion, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, 2014
The New York Moment, Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Etienne, France, 2014
Annual Invitational Exhibition, The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, New York, 2013
Summer Group Show, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, California, 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
Ode Oh Owe, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2012
The Working Title, Bronx River Art Center (BRAC), New York City, New York, organized by Progress Report, 2011
Portable Caves, organized by HKJB, New York City, New York, 2010
Awards
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
