SCAD deFINE ART artist talk: Discover inventive sculpture with Rachel Feinstein and Josh Sperling

Join artists Rachel Feinstein and Josh Sperling in the galleries for a conversation on their distinct approaches to sculptural objects and installations. Feinstein will touch on the elements of myth and storytelling that inform her installations, while Sperling will speak to the formal qualities and design influences in his works, which merge painting and sculpture.

About the artists
Josh Sperling (b. 1984, Oneonta, N.Y.) draws on the language of minimalist painting from the 1960s and 1970s, primarily working with shaped canvases. He crafts intricate plywood supports over which canvas is stretched and painted in a signature palette of saturated, sometimes clashing colors. In their three-dimensionality, Sperling’s works blur the lines between painting and sculpture, image and object. Mining a wide range of sources, from design to art history, Sperling has honed a unique visual vocabulary remarkable for its expressive quality and irrepressible energy. The artist has presented solo exhibitions internationally. His work is held in the collections of Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; and the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga.

Rachel Feinstein (b. 1971, Fort Defiance, Ariz.) is a New York-based sculptor, painter, and set designer known for creating whimsical, multidimensional installations inspired by a concoction of references ranging from fairy tales and religious myths to 18th-century European craft and 20th-century American kitsch. Feinstein fabricates idyllic landscapes and decadent genre scenes with a heightened awareness of the power that accompanies storytelling. In 1993, she earned her B.A. from Columbia University, where she studied studio art and religion and worked closely with Kiki Smith and Ursula von Rydingsvard. That same year she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Beginning with the group exhibition Let the Artist Live at New York’s Exit Art in 1994, Feinstein has continued to show her work internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone at the Jewish Museum, New York; Folly at Madison Square Park, New York; The Snow Queen at Lever House, New York; and Tropical Rodeo at Le Consortium, Dijon, France.