Rochelle Feinstein:
The Today Show
February 21 – May 10, 2027
More than 30 mixed-media works examining abstraction, culture, and public life.
Rochelle Feinstein. Tagged (detail), 2019. Photo by Gina Folly. Courtesy of the artist; Hoffman Donahue, Los Angeles / New York; and Nina Johnson, Miami. Artwork © Rochelle Feinstein
Adults $30; seniors $28 (tickets good for 2 days); students $5; members free
About the Exhibition
“Humor, irony, sex, human stupidity, commerce, art, and politics are central to my inquiry. My work will not offer a placebo for trauma, self-care, nor healing, nor depict illusory spaces. That is a task for others. My preference, hope, and interest are to provide an opportunity for reflection on the state of affairs of a culture, communicated through painting.” —Rochelle Feinstein
Over the past four decades, American artist Rochelle Feinstein (b. 1947) has developed an oeuvre in which a wide range of abstract painting practices—from rigid geometric abstraction to fluid color field—are subtly, cleverly infiltrated by social and political concerns. The Today Show presents recent multimedia works where she employs the visual vocabulary of gestural expressionism to novel ends.
The exhibition, co-organized by the Vienna Secession, Kunsthaus Glarus, and Ludwig Forum Aachen and curated for the Barnes by Thom Collins, Neubauer Family Executive Director and President, presents more than 30 mixed-media paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Feinstein. The Barnes has also commissioned 11 new large-scale artworks for the exhibition, produced in partnership with the Fabric Workshop and Museum, for display in the Annenberg Court.
Rochelle Feinstein. Tagged, 2019. Installation view in The Today Show at Kunsthaus Glarus, 2025. Photo by Gina Folly. Courtesy of the artist; Hoffman Donahue, Los Angeles / New York; and Nina Johnson, Miami. Artwork © Rochelle Feinstein
Sponsors
Rochelle Feinstein: The Today Show is sponsored by:
Support is provided by Ralph Citino and Lawrence Taylor, an anonymous donor, and other generous individuals.
Ongoing funding for exhibitions comes from the Christine and Michael Angelakis Exhibition Fund, Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Exhibition Fund, Lois and Julian Brodsky Exhibition Fund, Elaine W. Camarda and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Exhibition Fund, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Christine and George Henisee Exhibition Fund, Aileen and Brian Roberts Exhibition Fund, and Tom and Margaret Lehr Whitford Exhibition Fund.
In addition, funding for all exhibitions comes from contributors to the Barnes Foundation Exhibition Fund:
Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, Joan Carter and John Aglialoro, Julia and David Fleischner, Victoria McNeil Le Vine, Leigh and John Middleton, Jeanette and Joe Neubauer, and Aileen and Brian Roberts
John Alchin and Hal Marryatt, N. Judith Broudy, Julie Jensen Bryan, Emily and Michael Cavanagh, Marianne N. Dean, Eugene and Michelle Dubay, Penelope P. Harris, Jones & Wajahat Family, Lisa D. Kabnick and John H. McFadden, Victor F. Keen and Jeanne Ruddy, Marguerite Lenfest, Maribeth and Steven Lerner, Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Foundation, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Cathy and Henry Nassau, The Park Family, Wendy and Mark Rayfield, Anne and Bruce Robinson, Adele K. Schaeffer, Katie and Tony Schaeffer, Donna and Jerry Slipakoff, Dr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Stark, Joan F. Thalheimer, Bruce and Robbi Toll, van Beuren Charitable Foundation, and Randi Zemsky and Bob Lane.