I'm with Her is the first book to offer a cohesive presentation of
American artist Rochelle Feinstein's rich career to date. Bringing
together several important bodies of work, such as The Estate of
Rochelle F, The Abramovic Method and The Wonderfuls, this
compendium showcases an evolving, expansive and highly self-reflexive
painting practice.
Possessing an extensive painting lexicon, Feinstein employs an array of
media from silkscreen, to photography and assemblage, to abstract,
expressive painting. These combined material processes are applied to an
appropriative practice that cross-references the historical with the
vernacular, the mythologies of art history and popular culture. Sourcing
and reconstituting found visual material, Feinstein includes text,
personal photography and even self-cannibalises past work. I'm with
Her showcases a deliberately a-stylistic yet deeply personal body of
work, vacillating between earnestness and irreverence.
Feinstein exhibits widely in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and
museums across the United States and Europe, and her work is included in
numerous public and private collections. Recent awards include the
Guggenheim Fellowship and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship.
Having received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1975 and an MFA from the
University of Minnesota in 1978, she was appointed to the Yale faculty
in 1994 and is currently professor of painting/printmaking.
Rochelle Feinstein's forthcoming retrospective will open at Centre d'Art
Contemporarin, Geneva in January 2016, and travel to Lenbachhaus, Munich
and Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover. Feinstein was recently included in
the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
Published in partnership with On Stellar Rays, New York.
