Roni Feinstein

  • Home
  • Bio
  • CV
  • Writing
    • Articles & Reviews
    • Books & Catalogues
    • Newspaper Articles
  • Teaching
  • Blog
  • Contact

Sao Paulo Surprise

January 18, 2018 By Roni Feinstein

MASP

During a few days in Sao Paulo, I went to several museums and about a dozen far-flung galleries. Each had something to recommend it, whether the art or exhibition on view or the architecture or physical lay-out of the space, but nothing I saw or experienced surprised or captivated me as much as what I saw at MASP.   MASP, the Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, is a private, nonprofit museum founded by Brazilian businessman Assis Chateaubriand in 1947. Originally located elsewhere, it moved in 1968 into a Modernist structure designed by Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi on Avenida Paulista, a busy shopping and business thoroughfare. The museum occupies a glass-walled rectangular box that is suspended high above the street … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Brazil, Latin American Art, Uncategorized Tagged With: Galeria Millan, Hammer Museum, Latin American Art, Luciana Brito Gallery, MASP, Radical Women, Roni Feinstein, Vermelho Gallery

proyectosLA: A Model Fair

September 20, 2017 By Roni Feinstein

Amid the hubbub and bounty of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative is proyectosLA, a two-month long commercial art fair of remarkable quality, taste, and inspiration, which is housed in a converted downtown warehouse. Near the entry, a collection of small rooms radiating off communal office space serve as booths for 19 galleries from throughout Latin American and the U.S. that present select works by Latin American artists. The remainder of the 20,000 sq. ft. space is occupied by the exhibition Here the border is you, which is comprised of fascinating and distinguished work drawn from the 19 galleries. They are installed so as to elicit dialogues among the established and emerging, multigenerational artists … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: art fair, ArtTable Southern California, Getty Foundation, LA/LA, Latin American Art, Marta Minujin, Pacific Standard Time, proyectosLA, Roni Feinstein

Notes on a Visit to Buenos Aires, December 2016

February 9, 2017 By ronifein

Lidy Prati, Serial Composition, 1945 (c.1948) Oil on hardboard, 29.7 x 21.9 in.

In early December, I traveled to Buenos Aires, where I always encounter wonderful art and exhibitions, ranging from early Modernist to Contemporary, some of which I will note briefly here. Time and again in Buenos Aires, I have seen work by Latin American artists little known to me who were shortly thereafter the subjects of major museum and gallery exhibitions in the U.S. and elsewhere. I will therefore point out work by artists--a number of women in particular--whose art caught my eye. At MALBA, Museum de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, where I always begin my trip, the permanent collection galleries featured abstract work of the late 1950s by the Brazilian artists Lygia Clark, who had a retrospective at New York's MoMA in 2014, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Abroad, Buenos Aires Tagged With: Buenos Aires, Fundacion Proa, Grete Stern, Hernan Soriano, Jorge Mara-La Ruche Gallery, Latin American Art, MALBA, Museo de Arte Moderno, Wanda Pimentel

Enrique Martinez Celaya Studio Visit

February 17, 2016 By Roni Feinstein

A few nights ago, I had the privilege of visiting the Culver City studio of Enrique Martinez Celaya, whose work I have long admired, together with a small group from ArtTable. Martinez Celaya moved back to Los Angeles two years ago after a ten-year hiatus, during which time he lived in South Florida (where he retains a studio) and Berlin.   Martinez Celaya is an old-fashioned artist in the sense that he paints in oil and wax on canvas and creates sculptures cast in bronze that are rendered in a representational manner. However, his works go beyond naturalism to embrace poetry, poignancy and wonder, being rich in implied narrative and displaying a deep-rooted humanism. Each provides a journey into its own world and experience.  Each is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Los Angeles Tagged With: Enrique Martinez Celaya, Kiki Smith, L.A. Louver Gallery, Latin American Art, Parafin

Gego at Dominique Lévy Gallery

September 21, 2015 By Roni Feinstein

Gego at Dominique Levy

Works of Gego's Reticulárea Series (1969-82)--sculptures in which slender lengths of wire are used to create space-enclosing networks of lines in undefined shapes--have increasingly appeared in museum collections and art fairs over the course of the past decade. Yet this German-born, Venezuelan artist, who died in 1994, remains underknown by North American audiences. A small survey of her work at the Drawing Center in 2007 attracted some attention, while a show at the Americas Society in 2012 was all but ignored. The tightly-curated, museum quality exhibition Gego: Autobiography of a Line, currently on view at the Dominique Lévy Gallery in New York, may finally do the trick in establishing her reputation. The show is timely, coming at a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New York Tagged With: Dominique Levy Gallery, Gego, Latin American Art

Search

Blog Posts by Tag

African American art Ai Weiwei Arshile Gorky Art + Practice art fair Art in Print ArtTable Southern California Assemblage Beall Center Beall Center for Art _+ Technology Brazilian art California Assemblage China contemporary art Beijing David Familian Doug Aitken Evan Holloway Flooded Mc'Donald's Galeria Millan Getty Foundation Hammer Museum Hauser + Wirth Inhotim It Passes Like a Thought Janaina Tschape Jeff Koons Juan Fontanive Junk Dada LA/LA Latin American Art Los Angeles Luciana Brito Gallery MASP MOCA Pacific Standard Time Paul McCarthy Prix de Print proyectosLA Radical Women Roni Feinstein Shark's Ink Stacey Steers Vermelho Gallery White Snow Without Gorky

Blog Posts by Category

  • Abroad
  • Art Fair
  • Asia
  • Brazil
  • Buenos Aires
  • China
  • Latin American Art
  • Los Angeles
  • Miami
  • New York
  • Paris
  • San Francisco
  • Uncategorized

Copyright © 2025 by Roni Feinstein.

Website by Nine Planets