Rochelle Feinstein has been a longstanding member of the New York art community for over four decades. Feinstein’s practice has been one deeply informed by abstraction, as much as it responds to contemporary conditions and demotic speech. Geometric forms—the modernist trope of the grid is a regular presence—and vibrant chroma become tools to explore notions of artistic value and production, societal structures, and feminist idioms. 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 jabbing at the notion of pure painting. Painting, for Feinstein, is the means to constantly reevaluate the medium’s potential, constraint, and rudimentary premises, with the possibility of expansion and reorganization. ...
