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Rochelle Feinstein’s forthcoming retrospective, “In Anticipation of Women’s History Month. Selected Works”, will open at Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva in January 2016, and travel to Lenbachhaus, Munich and kestnergesellschaft, Hannover.
Possessing an extensive painting lexicon, Feinstein employs an array of media from silkscreen, to photography and assemblage, to abstract, expressive painting. These combined material processes are applied to an appropriative practice that cross-references the historical with the vernacular, the mythologies of art history and popular culture. Sourcing and reconstituting found visual material, Feinstein includes text, personal photography and even self-cannibalises past work. At once a social commentary and autobiographical, her works stands as biting satire of her role as an artist working in the arena that is painting in America today.
The exhibition will be the first comprehensive retrospective of the last 25 years of the artist’s production. On this occasion the three institutions collaborate to publish a reference monograph.
Rochelle Feinstein was born in 1947 in New York where she lives and works. “In Anticipation of Women’s History Month. Selected Works” is curated by Fabrice Stroun and Tenzing Barshee for the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva.