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2009-09-08 to 2009-10-04
Opening Reception: 2009-09-10, at 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Forbidden Froot - Hank Feeley:
The Genesis of Aestheticized Ambiguity
On the eighth day
(after rest and reflection on the meaning of creation)
God said "Let there be Art"
Adam said "What is Art?"
Eve said "Art who?"
Kafka said "Crack walnuts"
And so it goes_
Hank Feeley returns to First Street Gallery presenting an exhibition of new paintings titled Forbidden Froot.
"If Hank Feeley were not so strikingly original, I would say that he stands at the intersection of Magritte and Marvel Comics, but as it is, he has his own way of disorienting the viewer so we can see again, now with our perception refreshed."
That's a quote from Billy Collins... a well-known admirer of Feeley's work. Needless to say, we agree! His work is so original and out-there that quite often one may feel as though they have stumbled into another dimension. He takes license to reorder and re-contextualize the world of images to present not the accepted logical arrangement, but rather an aesthetically provocative re-arrangement. Feeley's sources are endless: signs and symbols of contemporary culture, art history and literature, myth and legend, and even doodles. In other words, whatever he can draw on to throw open the gates of our perception.
A lifetime artist, Hank Feeley is also a former international Chairman/CEO and retired Vice Chairman of Leo Burnett Company, Chicago. Paradoxically, he is a graduate of both Harvard Business School and of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Feeley is represented in Chicago by the Packer Schopf Gallery with his most recent show in 2008. He has been reviewed by Alan Artner of the Chicago Tribune as well as the Chicago Journal, the Chicago Reader, and New York Newsday among others. In 2007, he was honored by Oxbow/School of the Art Institute Chicago for his contributions to art and art education. In 2005, Hank Feeley received the Holbein Prize given by the Palm Springs Desert Museum. Feeley's work is in corporate and private collections in the United States and abroad. In New York City he shows with First Street Gallery.
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