Rochelle Feinstein: The Big Picture

Rochelle Feinstein, Love Your Work (Part of Love Vibe), 1994–2009 (courtesy die Künstlerin and On Stellar Rays, New York)
Rochelle Feinstein, Love Your Work (Part of Love Vibe), 1994–2009 (courtesy die Künstlerin and On Stellar Rays, New York)

Faye Hirsch reviews the recent exhibition Rochelle Feinstein: I Made a Terrible Mistake at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. The show will be on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts from June 27 - September 22, 2018.

Hirsch begins: "Rochelle Feinstein is tough on painting while remaining a true believer. Work by work, she seeks to reinvent it, honoring the familiar structures of high modernism—the grid, the monochrome, a critique of the frame—by taking them down a peg. Following a cross-Atlantic trajectory of artists, fom Duchamp to Rauschenberg and beyond, who engage the contingencies of daily existence, Feinstein brings to her painting a range of materials and content, no matter how incongruous or low, that amuse and move her. Language plays a centeral role and dark humor is one of her constants, as she forces abstraction to accommodate life’s petty humiliations, fluctuating tastes, and mundane terrors."