PROJECT SPACE

JEFF FELD | Field Guide

January 8 - February 17, 2023

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"The works presented 57W57Arts represent an ongoing interest and investigation of my neighborhood, Ridgewood, Queens. I am part of the concern and gentrification of this area and witness to its many displacements and re-births. These unformed, cut up spaces abound with energy, possibility and at times exhausted use. It is these spaces – those areas that exist between art and life- that I seek to index and grasp. Found and chosen in Ridgewood, the materials here suggest to me a process of life, an arc of use, that reflect my working methods. In this way I seek to create a separate pause, a momentary lapse, and a moment to wonder during a whirlwind of change." - JF

Jeff Feld's sculptures and drawings have been featured in both national and international exhibitions, including White Columns, Artists Space, The Drawing Center, The Brooklyn Museum and the Queens Museum of Art in New York and Dunker Kulturhus in Helsinborg, Sweden. Most recently his was featured at the Mueller Gallery, at Caldwell University.

A citizen of Ireland and the United States, Feld was trained as a social worker and spent much of his professional life working in child protective services. Many of the issues and contradictions found within cultural, institutional, and hierarchal systems he experienced during this time are equally reflected and felt in the works created.

Using objects, drawings, collages, performance and on-site collaboration, Feld’s work engages with issues related to the pressures and ubiquitous contradictions we encounter every day. Through his practice he examines the tension between fluidity and stasis, objecthood and reductionism, the abject and the pristine. Nothing is left complete, things typically fall short, progress is questioned and slow.

He lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens, New York where he is the founder and director of 325 Project Space, a community based art space.