13 Facts About Paul Feeley

Paul Feeley was an artist and director of the Art Department at Bennington College during the 1950s and early 1960s.

Primarily a painter, Paul Feeley favored canvases in which simple geometric forms are deployed singly or in repeating groups.

Paul Feeley used upright barbell or baluster shapes, oblongs that resemble peanuts, small solid-looking arches and wavy-countered squares and rectangles.

In 1931, Paul Feeley moved to New York to pursue his studies.

Paul Feeley helped to organize the first retrospective exhibition of modernist sculptor David Smith, in 1951 and helped with the 1955 Hans Hofmann and the 1952 Jackson Pollock retrospectives which were both organized by Clement Greenberg.

Paul Feeley was an important Color Field painter and in the early 1960s he was included in the catalog and exhibition called Post-Painterly Abstraction organized by Clement Greenberg in 1964.

Paul Feeley had his first full scale retrospective at the Matthew Marks Gallery, 2002 in New York City.

Paul Feeley's paintings are characterized by bright colors; simple, abstract forms; and symmetrically arranged, but serene, compositions.

Paul Feeley's style had tightened up significantly, favoring clean lines and geometric forms over the more popular Pollock-inspired gestural style.

Donald Judd reviewed a Paul Feeley show at Betty Parsons Gallery in 1962.

Paul Feeley makes greater use of negative space, isolating his quatrefoil and dumbbell shaped forms in the center of the canvas.

Paul Feeley was a veteran of more than 18 solo exhibitions in important contemporary galleries and dozens of group exhibitions in important museums.

Paul Feeley had exhibitions of his paintings and sculpture in London at the Kasmin Gallery and at the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles.