Cecelia Feld

Artist E-mail: celia@feld.com
Website: www.studio7310.com

Medium: Collage

Cecelia Feld grew up in New York City and received her B.A. from Hunter College, N.Y. in 1963. She moved to Dallas in 1969, receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1976 from the University of North Texas. Cecelia has exhibited her paintings, drawings and prints in juried exhibits throughout the United States. She has had numerous solo exhibitions. Her artwork is in many private and corporate collections including Frito-Lay, Inc., I.B.M. and DeltaAirlines. Commissions include Little Dix Bay resort and The Crescent Hotel, Dallas.

Ms. Feld is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Visual Artist Fellowship. The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire was founded in 1907 as a place where selected artists, writers and composers can work uninterrupted in a secluded setting. She also received a Fellowship for a Residency in printmaking in 1997 at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.

Artist Statement

My work, whether in printmaking or painting, is about exploring relationships. Bits and pieces from my visual experiences bump against each other. There are references in my work to the textures, colors, lines and shapes of things in the real world. The layering or unfolding of shapes, punctuations or expanses of color or character of a line order the picture plane. The resulting abstract images allude to natural forms.

The relationship of visual components in my paintings or prints (monotypes, collagraphs, or solarplate etchings) is similar to what happens in jazz. There are themes and variations, repetitive devices, tensions and releases, riffs, harmony and dissonance. Like a jazz piece, there is a lot of improvisation. At each step in painting or making a print I may ask myself, “what if…?”, or “why not…?”, or “how about…?” The results are often unexpected, and even though I may have some idea of the general direction, like jazz, there can be many twists and turns along the way.

My collagraph and/or monoltype prints frequently become the basis for collage. The prints are background or foreground and provide texture and color which play off against other kinds of found paper to make the collage.

Each step, expected, or unexpected, is the impetus to continue the exploration or the journey in this painting or print or the next one. All of the emotions are there: anxiety, elation, thrills, disappointment, you name it. Serendipity is the hallmark of my work. I love the unpredictability of working with paint, paper, ink and plate.

My art is included in private and corporate collections worldwide. I am honored to have had an artist residency at the MacDowell Colony and Vermont Studio Center.

Cecelia Feld