Exhibition Seminar: Rochelle Feinstein:
The Today Show
Tuesday, April 20, 2 – 4pm
Rochelle Feinstein. Memory Hole #4 (detail), 2003–24. Photo by Oliver Ottenschlager, courtesy of Secession, Vienna. Courtesy of the artist; Hoffman Donahue, Los Angeles / New York; and Nina Johnson, Miami. Artwork © Rochelle Feinstein
$90; members $81
(2-hour workshop)
About the Class
What better way to explore an exhibition than with the artist and curator themselves? In this special two-hour seminar, artist Rochelle Feinstein joins exhibition curator Thom Collins for an in-depth exploration of Rochelle Feinstein: The Today Show.
Over the past four decades, Feinstein has drawn on a wide range of approaches to abstract painting, from rigid geometry to fluid fields of color, while bringing social and political concerns into her work in unexpected ways. The Today Show presents recent multimedia works that play with the expressive gestures of abstract painting and push them in new directions.
Through guided discussion inside the exhibition, participants will hear directly from Feinstein and Collins as they explore the ideas, processes, and choices behind the artist’s remarkably varied body of work. Join us for a closer look at mixed-media paintings, sculpture, and a new installation created for the Barnes’s Annenberg Court for this special exhibition.
Capacity: 25
- Sharpen your observational and critical thinking skills.
- Improve your ability to communicate about art.
- Deepen your appreciation for cultures and histories outside your own.
Instructors
Rochelle Feinstein
Feinstein lives and works in New York. Her work is in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. She earned a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She is Professor Emerita of Painting and Printmaking at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut. Photo by Albrecht Fuchs
Thom Collins
Collins is the Neubauer Family Executive Director and President of the Barnes. Prior to joining the Barnes, he worked at some of America’s top arts institutions, including the Pérez Art Museum Miami; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; and Museum of Modern Art, New York. A Philadelphia native, Collins studied art history and the history of religion at Swarthmore College and earned an MA in art history at Northwestern University.
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