Tina Feingold’s luminous, richly textured new paintings continue the artist’s exploration of landscapes that have the qualities of both interior, emotional or psychological space, and exterior space. She creates a dreamlike sense of place – devoid of gravity, ambiguous in orientation – through the insistent physicality of oil paint on canvas. The paintings are developed through an intense layering process that adds to their powerful sense of depth and the radiance of their tone.
One of the most pressing elements in Feingold’s works is TIME: the paintings reward extra time spent looking, as their colorful surfaces give way slowly but surely to reveal layers of visual resonances and meaning. Forms that appeared solid begin to melt, figures that felt tree-like morph into human forms, and buried colors find their way to the center of attention. In all of them, a central form finds itself in dynamic tension with glowing light, drawing viewers in by virtue of their beauty and their mystery.