Shelley Feinerman

For most of my career I have been a representational, artist who embraced the possibilities of a dialectical synthesis between abstraction and representation. My paintings were always off center. And while I found great inspiration in Matisse and Cezanne; Hans Hoffman, Dekooning and Eva Hesse were also inspirational. Always a colorist, In recent years I have distilled the essence of those representational paintings into an exhilarating proliferation of pure color abstraction and whimsey that work in tandem with the representational pieces.

I realized no choice need be made, that the purely non-objective pieces worked off of/ and gained inspiration from, the more representational work and that the reverse was true as well. I have found that for me, pursuing mixed media and collage in the figure, still life and works on paper is a invigorating. Inspired by vintage baseball stencils, the works on paper are a hybrid of color moments punctuated with organic creature-like hybrids that coalesce in sensual absurdity and in turn this outpouring has influenced the representational work.