{"id":41810,"date":"2011-04-06T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=41810"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:22:39","slug":"feintuch-sonnabend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/06\/feintuch-sonnabend\/","title":{"rendered":"Art faculty&#039;s Feintuch shows paintings at New York&#039;s Sonnabend Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/04\/feintuch-rabble2bates.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/04\/feintuch-rabble2bates-226x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Image by Robert Feintuch\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Known by student artists at Bates as a mentor, senior lecturer Robert Feintuch enjoys a national reputation as the painter of images simultaneously evocative and quietly deadpan, serious and parodic.<\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s Sonnabend Gallery is showing recent paintings and drawings by Feintuch through April 30. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Feintuch explores connections and contradictions between classical  ideals, psychological desires, intimate life and current events. He uses himself as a model in most of his recent work, though in many of the paintings his face is turned away from the viewer or otherwise obscured. Seen against a plain backdrop, dressed in his underwear, the artist strikes poses that evoke influences ranging from classical mythological and genre paintings to slapstick and newspaper photos.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the positions he takes are choreographed in the studio, on a simple stage-like space reduced to floor and wall. He uses specific poses and objects such as clubs, grapes and furniture as recurring motifs. Combining information drawn from life, using a mirror, and from photographs, Feintuch depicts himself from viewpoints &#8212; seen from behind, at a distance or on hands and knees &#8212; that fluctuate between objectivity and intimacy, and that are not ordinarily associated with self-portraiture.<\/p>\n<p>Sonnabend Gallery is located at 536 West 22nd St., New York City. Learn more at 212-627-1018 or info@ sonnabendgallery.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as a mentor by student artists at Bates, senior lecturer Robert Feintuch enjoys a national reputation as the painter of images simultaneously evocative and quietly deadpan, serious and parodic. New York&#8217;s Sonnabend Gallery is showing recent paintings and drawings by Feintuch through April 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,11010,133,14],"tags":[2885,3491],"class_list":["post-41810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","category-creativity","category-faculty-staff","tag-art-and-visual-culture","tag-feintuch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86770,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41810\/revisions\/86770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}