ON HOLD: Art Show: Lea Vaughan Feinstein

PAUSED FOR COVID SAFETY

Reception Sunday at 4PM

Executed in vibrant colors, this series of paintings, done in Flashe vinyl emulsion on Tyvek and panel, draws on the rich artistic tradition of text as image. This tradition stretches from medieval illuminated manuscripts and concrete poetry, to Paul Klee and Bauhaus typography; from Jasper Johns, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, and Ed Ruscha to graffiti writers like Retna. In Pages, Feinstein uses words as pictures. The words are largely drawn from the artist’s own writings—poems from the early 2000s. The layered texts are rendered intentionally illegible, creating rich tumbled surfaces that ask to be decoded.

ARTIST BIO:
An East-coaster transplanted to the West, Lea Feinstein is an artist, writer, and teacher who has worked in a variety of media from bronze casting to performance art. She has taught at RISD, MICA, CCA, Academy of Art SF, George Washington and Georgetown University. She has written about art for national and local magazines, and penned a walking tour of Munch’s Oslo for a travel guide. As a friendly gallery director, she invited visitors to touch the paintings on display—to choose their favorites and the ones they hated most–and to tell her why.