The Marywood University Art Department’s Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture Series will present a lecture by New York painter/multimedia artist Rochelle Feinstein on Wednesday, March 1, at 4 p.m. This special event will take place in the Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art in the Shields Visual Arts Center at Marywood. Audience members will have an opportunity to meet the artist at the reception immediately following the lecture. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public, and the lecture is being held in conjunction with the exhibition, Distortion: Four Abstract Artists from The Maslow Collection, on view in the Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art through April 5.

Rochelle Feinstein is a contemporary American visual artist who makes abstract paintings, prints, video, sculpture, and installations that explore language and contemporary culture. Her work cannot be easily categorized, due to the way she employs various styles and media, typically responding with wit and bite to American Culture. Feinstein was one of the first women to be granted tenure at Yale University in the Visual Arts, and she became professor emerita in 2017. Feinstein received her BFA from Pratt Institute and her MFA from the University of Minnesota. She has been awarded a number of grants, residencies, and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Anonymous Was a Women Award, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. 

Feinstein’s work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in 2018, the Bronx Museum held the first comprehensive retrospective of her work in the United States, which traveled there from Switzerland and Germany. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland; On Stellar Rays, New York, NY; Higher Pictures, New York, NY; Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY; and The Suburban, Chicago, IL. Recent group exhibitions include the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany; New Galerie, Paris, France; Soloway, Brooklyn, NY; and Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX. Feinstein’s work is included in numerous prominent museum and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Perez Art Museum Miami; and Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, S. Korea. Feinstein currently lives and works in New York City and is represented by Francesca Pia, Zurich and Campoli Presti, London/Paris.

For more information on the visiting artist lecture with Rochelle Feinstein, please contact Ryan Ward, MFA, Curator of The Maslow Collection, at 570-348-6211, ext. 2520.