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Press Release
"Aline Feldman: Images from Wood, a 30 Year Survey" looks back on an amazing career of a celebrated, award winning
artist. Now 87 years old, Aline Feldman is still going strong, working daily in her studio. She is well
known as a master of the white line woodcut medium. This exhibition begins with her very large scale prints
from the mid 1980's, which rival the size of paintings, and concludes with more intimate scale images from a series begun
last year. The artist has been represented by the Marsha Mateyka Gallery
since 1988. A catalogue will accompany this exhibition.
"Canal Night", 1987, woodcut, 32 x 48 inches
Aline Feldman prints with watercolor from a single block of wood to create woodcuts of city views and landscapes
using expressive color and exuberant forms. Her prints are often panoramic, aerial views. This
perspective flattens her images, which are based on actual places, and frees her to follow abstract shapes,
patterns, dynamic rhythms, and color contrasts. This exhibition includes an outstanding example of this
early style, "Afternoon Sonata" (1988), a 4 part woodcut measuring 64 x 96 inches.
"Synthesizing elements from an array of influences, Aline Feldman forged a distinctive vision and method for color
woodcuts... In 1946 Feldman studied art at Washington University in Saint Louis. She was too young to
study with Max Beckman, the eminence grise of the art department but her early paintings and prints were influenced
by his style. Her most influential teacher was Werner Drewes, who conveyed to his students the essential role
of art in everyday life. She learned the techniques of intaglio printmaking from Fred Becker who brought his
own mentor, Stanley William Hayter into class to speak to students about engraving."*
"By 1965 she became interested in the white line woodcut technique of the Provincetown printmakers. Their use
of multiple color applications and one board appealed to Feldman and she began a period of experimentation based on
the synthesis of the Provincetown techniques and traditional Japanese methods. The personalized approach
coalesced into the white line woodcut technique she uses today."**
Aline Feldman's prints are in numerous museum collections including Nelson-Akins Museum of Art, McNay Art Museum,
Honolulu Academy of Art, Santa Barbara Museum and in Washington DC, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, National
Museum of Women in the Arts and Library of Congress.
*Acton, David, "60 Years of North American Prints, 1947-2007", published by The Boston Printmakers, MA, 2009, p.140.
**Arnold, Dr. Karen L., "Perspective, Place, Prints: The World of Artist Aline Feldman" p.2.
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