RACHEL FEINSTEIN (AMERICAN 1971-) YESTERDAY, 2000

Wood & enamel

(Back piece - 244cm x 244cm x 3.8cm Frontpiece - 183cm x 152cm x 3.8cm)

Provenance: Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

Note: The much-feted New York artist Rachel Feinstein aptly defines her work as ?Rococo with an underside?. Predominantly working in sculpture and installation, Feinstein?s is a world of fairy tale and fantasy, though she never takes her eyes off the fact that these stories were ultimately mired in the darker impulses found in the recesses of the human psyche. This is achieved through an interplay between opposing forces; 'romance and pornography, elegance and kitsch, and the marvellous and the banal,' as her biography in Gagosian has it. Feinstein achieved her first big break in 1994 when she was included in several group shows in New York, including Let the Artist Live! at Exit Art, where she notoriously presented a large gingerbread house modelled after Sleeping Beauty?s castle in which she slept throughout the exhibition. Further major exhibitions have followed. In 2000, the same year the work offered here for sale, Yesterday, was produced, Feinstein exhibited works in Pastoral Pop at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris and at The Americans exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London. In 2019 the Jewish Museum, New York, hosted her major exhibition Maiden, Mother, Crone. Feinstein, who is married to the renowned artist John Currin, has also long been interconnected with the world of high fashion; her artwork inspiring a range by Marc Jacobs in 2004. In 2019 she was tasked with transforming the gardens of Chatsworth House, England in collaboration with Gucci.