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Oct 27 - Nov 21 2026

The Painting Center is pleased to announce Captured Brushstroke, an exhibition of new collaged paintings by Robin Feld. The exhibition will present paintings made between 2023 and 2026. The exhibition will run from October 27 through November 21, 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, October 29, from 5 to 8 pm. In these last 3 years, Feld’s painting has evolved from straightforward oil painting to a process using acrylic paint and collaged imagery printed on acetate. “It is exciting, and kind of mind-boggling to have a way to incorporate imagery from photographs, as well as from past paintings and drawings, and to be able to play with it digitally and with paint.” Feld’s visual concerns are much the same as before. She hasn’t strayed far from her abstract expressionist roots, and is still captivated by the geometry found in nature and the beckoning of a seductive scribble. However, collaged elements provided a new type of enticing structure. An anchoring / jumping off point; more solidity, bolder contrast, and sharper edges. Matte and glossy surfaces merge, and patterns can be repositioned and repeated within the composition. “It is a joy to find these new visual tools.” In Captured Brushstroke (2026), the painting for which the show is named. The swirling linework that predominates was blown up onto acetate from a small watercolor done by a stream on Vancouver island. The acetate shapes are set up to contrast with visually open painted areas. Swamp Beast (2025), evolved differently. Forms grew organically from overlaying areas of different textures, shapes and sizes. Feld works out of her studio in Brooklyn, New York. Most recently her work was included in a 3 person show at Kean University. In the Fold focused on textural and gestural experimentation. Her work has been shown at the Painting Center in New York, Drawing Rooms in Jersey City, Kent State University, Curate NYC, Art Fair 14C, Paramount Gallery at LIU, and the Monmouth Museum. She has been featured in Jason McCoy Gallery's Drawing Challenges. Feld attended the High School of Music and Art (LaGuardia High School) in Manhattan, received her BFA at the City College of New York, and studied at the Art Students League. Her 2021 solo show at The Painting Center was reviewed by Jonathan Goodman in Tussle Magazine. For more information on the artist, please visit: www.robinfeldstudio.com and @robin_feld.

Oct 27 - Nov 21 2026

The Painting Center is pleased to present True Fiction, featuring Elizabeth Reagh’s new portrait and figure paintings in the Project Room. The exhibition will run from October 27 through November 21, 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, October 29, from 5 to 8 pm True Fiction refers to Reagh’s ongoing fascination with fictionalizing heads, figures, and scenes that begin with direct observation or photographic references. The small portrait paintings grew out of weekly Zoom meetings in which one participant sat for the length of a song (2-5 minutes) while the others drew. The 10-15 drawings per session grew to hundreds, inspiring Reagh to revisit an interest in imagined portrait painting. This time, the drawings provided a starting point, something to further develop or something to destroy and remake or a combination of both. Some of the final works remain quite close to the Zoom drawings; others look nothing like the original reference. The small size of the canvases and specific subject matter allowed for experimentation, quick and dramatic changes, and, over the period of several years, a relatively large number of paintings. Reagh began to see patterns emerging—themes around self and her interior life, as well as formal painting patterns and habitual visual responses. She began consciously to challenge her process, in the way one might try to challenge one's psychological responses when in therapy. Like therapy, it was difficult and revealing. The figure paintings grew out of a desire to merge familiar scenes and various figures in one painting using different references. The process, like the portrait painting process, was exploratory and inventive. The scenes were based on real life— snapshots of familiar surroundings, in which Reagh incorporated people she knows, people she doesn’t know, and people who are purely imagined. She is drawn to the banal as well as the strange and unexpected. The two bodies of work represent variations on a theme: taking what is visible and allowing something new and surprising to emerge. Elizabeth Reagh received a BFA from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the University of Oregon. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. She shows regularly at B Sakata Garo in Sacramento, CA. She will be having a solo show there in 2028. For more information on the artist, visit: www.elizabethreagh.com and @elizabethreagh.