I just saw that Rachel Feinstein’s ‘The Miami Years’ is on at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami through August 17, 2025, so plenty of time to drop by, still. Of course there’s a lot of talk since Art Miami is finishing up right now. At Gagosian:
Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years spans almost three decades of work by the artist and explores Feinstein’s multidisciplinary approach encompassing sculpture, painting, video, performance, and installation. The exhibition reflects on themes of intimacy, vulnerability, and abjection, foregrounding Feinstein’s examination of societal factors that shape human behavior and female identity. It includes the museum’s commission of site-specific painted mirrored wall panels spanning 30 feet—a work that probes Miami’s contradictory image and reflects the artist’s interest in scenography and artifice.
I was taken with her Facade exhibit last year at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah. About it, SCAD wrote:
In Façade, New York-based sculptor and painter Rachel Feinstein lays bare the underpinnings of the fantasy realms she so often constructs. Painted panoramas, large-scale sculptures, and 40-foot-long wall-reliefs from across her decades-long career come together to form a labyrinth that shifts between reality and illusion.
Each work featured in this multidimensional installation is an amalgamation of aesthetic and conceptual references, ranging from fairy tales and religious myths to art historical 18th-century European craft and 20th-century American kitsch. With a heightened awareness of the power that accompanies storytelling, Feinstein also draws inspiration from personal memories of her frequent childhood trips to Disney World, her college degree in religion and philosophy, and her upbringing in 1980s Miami. The artist reconfigures these source materials, bridging time periods and spanning a variety of materials to fabricate idyllic landscapes and decadent genre scenes that convey twisted tales of her own device.
Here are some pics from my visit to Facade:
Galerie did a feature on Rachel Feinstein’s NY studio earlier this year.
Not all, but some of the other exhibits at the SCAD Museum from that 2023 trip:
Ann Craven, Twelve Moons
Gyun Hur, My Peace Like a River
Mika Rottenberg, Cosmic Generator
Ana Bel Lee Washington’s posthumous exhibit, Rejoice!, of 18 works
Here’s what’s on at the SCAD Museum of Art now.