Amy Feldman
High Sign
Blackston Gallery, New York [link]
The gallery walls and ceiling are painted grey emphasizing the object-presence of Amy Feldman’s paintings. Within her large canvas works, Feldman’s process supplants causality. Dark grey forms painted against a white ground structure an exchange between the formal vacancies and positives of image, while the immediacy of their gestures with moments of careless paint drippings, punctuates the motifs as if they were exclamatory statements. Emblematically, the alliteration among titles like Gut Smut, Psych Alike, Spirit Merit, and Open Omen stress the play in her visual rhetoric, which emulate behaviors of cartoon-like call-out bubbles, humpty-back camels, and oceanic tribal masks.
