That Feldsott's supercharged paintings bring something new, brash, vital and exciting into the generally self-conscious, sometimes even precious realm of contemporary American art should not surprise us. They ask us, urgently, to reconsider the role of the metaphysical in our lives and art in...
This Figurative Expressionist lived the Bay Area for two decades before settling in Greenwich Village in 1957. He was a regular at the Cedar Bar with his AbEx friends and exhibited at several New York galleries. He even taught at MoMA but soon became a reclusive painter living what he called “a...
His images of politics, the environment, and sex are as explosive now as they were 60 years ago. Not only did he invent a new printing medium but a New York Times critic called him “the world’s greatest living carver of wood; there’s not even anyone close.”
