Amy Feldman


Amy Feldman is an American abstract painter from Brooklyn, New York.

Education

Amy Feldman received a BFA degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 2003. 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.
Feldman is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.

Work

Feldman's work has been shown in galleries and museums since 2008. Her work is planned and 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, urgent, 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, topology, morphology, and the perception and transmission of information.
Feldman's artistic influences range from Cubism to the works of Henri Matisse, Jean Arp, Ellsworth Kelly, Shirley Jaffe, Mary Heilmann, and Robert Ryman.
Feldman's work are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska, the Hall Art Foundation in Derneburg, Germany, and the Vanhaerents Art Collection in Brussels, Belgium. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Good Fortune: Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, Austria, 2025
  • Quick Epic: Knust Kunz Gallery, Munich, Germany, 2023
  • Heart Arts: Anna Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023
  • Goodnight Light: Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland, 2022
  • Mothercolor: Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY, 2021
  • Counter Ground: ANNAELLEGallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018
  • Nerve Reserve: James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, 2017
  • Breath Myth: Blain|Southern, Berlin, Germany, 2017
  • Psyche Shade: Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, 2016
  • Good Gloom: Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL, 2016
  • Moon Decorum: Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2015
  • Trice Electric: ANNAELLE Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
  • Mirror Cool: Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2015
  • High Sign: Blackston Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
  • Gray Area: Sorry, We're Closed Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2014
  • Stark Types: ANNAELLEGallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
  • Raw Graces: Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2013
  • Dark Selects: Blackston Gallery, New York, NY, 2012

Selected group exhibitions

Awards

  • The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2021
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2018
  • 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