Tina Feingold

August 21 - October 18, 2025

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My work evolves by applying layer upon layer of oil paint and mixed media. As light, color and space intermingle, complex and intimate internal landscapes emerge, taking the painting out beyond its surface reality. My primary intention is to develop a pulsating, airy atmosphere in which the images can breathe.

There are moments when we fervently want something to be true, for circumstances to be different, or consider how an alternate reality may change things for the better. We refer to this as wishful thinking. We live in a world of deeply challenging realities, and wishful thinking gives us the space to ask “what if.” The “something else” that answers that question opens up a world of possibility.

Tina Feingold’s work lives in the spaces that wishful thinking creates. She describes her paintings as “mysterious portals into the subconscious, a domain that is immersive, dream-like and surprising.” They are fantastical alternate realities made tangible on canvas, works that explode in bursts of blues, yellows, purples, and greens. Objects float amidst layers of paint and stenciled marks, like fossils imprinted on colorful botanical forms. Experiencing one of Feingold’s paintings is akin to allowing the mind to wander into a daydream, and this element of escapism is necessary at times. Her canvases abstract our sense of reality and blur the lines between the real and the artificial. This series began during the pandemic, when all was closed and isolated, and reality was strange and full of unknowns. Feingold turned to artificial flowers as inspiration, and the pandemic-era works include tight, dense compositions bursting with wild, exuberant colors.

Jessica Roscio, Ph.D., Director and Curator, Danforth Art Museum