Rochelle Feinstein’s photograph, taken in Rome, was a flyer posted by someone seeking her missed cat. The rain-soaked printing inks transformed the picture of the cat into a palette of random rainbow colors.

Feinstein writes,

“I was moved by the sentiment in “Missed” as much as the rain soaked inks obscuring this longing… As we endure and adapt to the pandemic, I returned to the photograph. … What don’t we miss?

The word MISSED speaks volumes to who; to what we miss; to the missed futures we imagined, and if fortunate, to the futures we have to re-imagine.”

Rochelle Feinstein
Missed
2020
digital print
19 x 13 inches

Rochelle Feinstein and Ulrike Müller’s Coming Soon (2020), is a collaboration between two artists in different locations during the pandemic. The piece is composed of 24 cardboard panels held together by grommets and yarn and installed on a freestanding wall.  The panels alternate between the artists.  Feinstein’s panels provide the data and graphs that define the Covid-19 lockdown, and Müller’s introduces creatures that seem to respond with confusion, frustration, anger and indifference. The grids hang on a large sheet of plywood that boards up part of the window, referencing the boarded-up windows of the summer.  While the drawings face outward, a short poster with text-like “speech bubbles” hangs on the back of the wall and provides the titles of each panel.

Rochelle Feinstein is a longstanding member of the New York art community. She has exhibited her works nationally and internationally and has written about art and artists.  A collection of selected writings, Pls. Reply, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2019.  Feinstein’s four concurrent retrospectives (2016-2019) were presented, and respectively titled, at these venues: In Anticipation of Women’s History Month, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH, I Made A Terrible Mistake, Lenbachhaus Stadtische, Munich, DE, Make it Behave, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, DE, and Image of an Image, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC. Recent solo exhibitions include, Rainbow Room/The Year in Hate, Campoli Presti, London, UK (2019), Fredonia!, Nina Johnson Gallery Miami, FL (2020).

Feinstein is Professor Emerita of Painting and Printmaking at Yale University (2017). Among her numerous accolades, she was a recent recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize Jules Guerin Fellowship in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome (2017-2018). Her work is in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; the Pérez Art Museum, Miami; and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.

Learn more at
rochellefeinstein.com