Robin Feld

Biography:

Robin Feld’s work synthesizes the movement, flow, energy and geometry obtained through external and
internal observation. Her work references 1950s abstraction as seen through the lens of contemporary landscape painting and personal vision. More specifically, Feld looks to the crisscrossing and tangles found in nature, the juxtapositions of line, shape, and form and the geometry it generates, as a structural jumping off point for working with balance, motion and fluidity within the framework of a two-dimensional surface.

Feld uses observational watercolor sketches, photography and automatic drawing as source material. Through the abandon of the big sweeping gesture or the bucket of poured paint coupled with more intimate calligraphic marks and descriptive line she seeks to evoke the sensation of being human in nature.
Feld works out of her studio in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been shown at the Painting Center in New York, Drawing Rooms in Jersey City, Kent State University, Curate NYC, Art Fair 14C, Paramount Gallery at LIU, and the Monmouth Museum. She was featured in Jason McCoy Gallery’s online Drawing Challenges XV & XVI. Feld attended the High School of Music and Art (LaGuardia High School) in  Manhattan, received her BFA at the City College of New York, and studied at the Art Students League.

Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Painting Center, Making Tracks, New York, NY;
2021 The Painting Center, Energized, New York, NY;
2018 The Painting Center, Arrivals & Departures, New York, NY.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Makowski Gallery, Inner Being, New York, NY;
2024 First Presbyterian Church, Great Hall; Cross-Pollination, New York, NY;
2021 Atlantic Gallery, Causality, New York, NY;
2020 Featured in Drawing Challenge(s) XV & XVI, (online) Jason McCoy Gallery New York, NY;
Member’s Invitational, New York Equity Gallery, New York, NY; Spring Flash, New York Equity Gallery, New York NY (online exhibition); Art Fair 14C, represented by the Painting Center, Jersey City NJ;
2019 The Painting Center, 25th Anniversary; Exhibition, New York, NY; Art Fair 14C, represented by Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ;
2018 Sideshow Gallery, Sideshow Nation IV, Brooklyn, NY; Kent State University at Stark, Mutual Aid, Kent State, OH;
2016 Art in a Box, Art Exhibition for Children at Risk – New York, NY; Drawing Rooms, The BIG Small Painting Show, Jersey City, NJ;
2015 The Art Project, The Art House, Jersey City, NJ; Mishkin Gallery, Small Works Baruch, NY, NY; Monmouth Museum, Big ART in Small Packages and 36th Annual Juried Show, Lyncroft, NJ;
2014 Cutlog Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY (by invitation of Post Nature Art); Fountain Arts Fair, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY (with Hullaballoo Collective); I Kan Do Dat, contemporary abstract art, curation  Danny Simmons & Oshun Layne, Salena Gallery, Bklyn, NY;
2013 bau Gallery, Saints and Sinners, Beacon, NY; Curate NYC, Gallery at 139 Bay, Staten Island / online shows: curators Kate Feirtag, Debra Simon;
2012 Paul Seftel Project Space, Joie de Vivre, New York, NY (with Hullaballoo Collective); Fountain Arts Fair, 69th Regiment Armory, NYC, (with Hullaballoo Collective);
2010 City Without Walls (cWOW), Dialectical Landscapes, Newark, NJ;
2008, 2009 Riverstone Arts, Invitational, Haverstraw, NY;
2007 City Without Walls (cWOW), Landscape Revisited, Newark, NJ;
2005 The Studio/Art Exchange, Standards & Shifts in Contemporary Art: Winter Solstice IV, White Plains, NY;
2004 Tribeca 148 Gallery, Surface Exposure / Inner Language – New York, NY
2003 Kentler Int’l Drawing Space, Small Works / Benefit, Brooklyn, NY;
2002 David Allen Fine Art, Room to Breathe, Solo Show, Brooklyn, NY.
REPRESENTATION
IN THE COLLECTION OF
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island (FAMLI) – Hempstead, NY
Sante Fe Condominiums – Hoboken, NJ; Merck Pharmaceutical – Rahway, NJ.
PUBLICATIONS
Robin Feld & Elizabeth Reagh at the Painting Center, Tussle Magazine, article by Jonathan Goodman, 2021 Pictures of Everything, Abstract Painting Now. Essay by James Pustorino. Victory Hall Press, 2014.
EDUCATION
The Art Student’s League – New York, NY – Abstract painting, design and composition with Frank O’Cain;
The New York Experimental Glass Workshop – New York, NY;
The City College of New York – New York, NY – BFA. in Fine Arts

Statement:

¨As an abstract painter I am interested in what happens in the world of a painting when serenity is invaded by a chaotic jumble of randomness.

There is a moment, or a series of moments that are pivotal in the creation of a painting… perhaps the same can be said, in the creation or living of a life. To differing degrees, we go along in our grids, in our bands of color, but inevitably, the unexpected happens and there is nothing to be done but cope as best we can.
In that spirit I am pouring, scraping and blotting paint, creating a kind of managed chaos. After the rush of adrenaline subsides, it is then my job to meditate on the results and work with them until the painting feels “right.” I want the marks on the canvas to talk to each other, for the layers to interact, for the process of how the painting was built to be apparent.

Abstract expressionism, Japanese and Chinese landscape painting, calligraphic marks/language from all over the world, as well as the daily influx of digital imagery – from art to advertisements, are strong influences on my painting as are the grids and jumbles of Manhattan and Brooklyn and the line, shape, color and form that I “collect” while working with watercolor outdoors¨.