We Cover the Waterfront: <\/h1>conversations with VA alumnx, faculty and guests<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAlumnx Profile<\/strong>: Clea Felien (W 07)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n
<\/div><\/div><\/div>\nClea Felien<\/a> has been exhibiting her work in Midwest and East Coast galleries <\/em>and museums for over fifteen years. Including group shows at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in N.Y., the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) as a featured artist, Mia (the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Figge Museum, as well as gallery representation in Chelsea, New York.<\/em><\/p>\nFelien has thirteen years of study in art schools. She received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in painting with an emphasis in art theory. She studied five years at the Atelier in Mpls (a 19th Century French Academic realist portrait painting school) and one year of anatomical drawing at the Art Students League in New York City. Her work is predominantly painting and drawing. Felien is Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Sonoma State University, California.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\nHow has the pandemic affected your practice?<\/strong><\/p>\nBefore the shelter in place order I had been working on a series of portraits of the billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, the Kanders (who made their billions on tear gas) and then also the Sacklers, the opioid billionaires. I was in the middle of finishing up this series during the pandemic, then I took a break because I was floored by what was going on. I think all of us were. I started paintings of houses, little angelic houses surrounded by dark scary colors for Positive Pandemic Experiment (PPE)<\/a>, the shelter in place Instagram show that I was in.<\/p>\nBefore, every other weekend I would go out and look at other people\u2019s work. I can\u2019t do that now because I don\u2019t get to leave my house really. When I look at stuff online it\u2019s absolutely not the same, especially painting. I mean any art really, painting or sculpture, you want to get in there and really see it. And that is painful not to be able to see real art.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
conversations with VA alumnx, faculty and guests<\/p>\n<\/div>
Alumnx Profile<\/strong>: Clea Felien (W 07)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n Clea Felien<\/a> has been exhibiting her work in Midwest and East Coast galleries <\/em>and museums for over fifteen years. Including group shows at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in N.Y., the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) as a featured artist, Mia (the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Figge Museum, as well as gallery representation in Chelsea, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n Felien has thirteen years of study in art schools. She received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in painting with an emphasis in art theory. She studied five years at the Atelier in Mpls (a 19th Century French Academic realist portrait painting school) and one year of anatomical drawing at the Art Students League in New York City. Her work is predominantly painting and drawing. Felien is Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Sonoma State University, California.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n How has the pandemic affected your practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n Before the shelter in place order I had been working on a series of portraits of the billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, the Kanders (who made their billions on tear gas) and then also the Sacklers, the opioid billionaires. I was in the middle of finishing up this series during the pandemic, then I took a break because I was floored by what was going on. I think all of us were. I started paintings of houses, little angelic houses surrounded by dark scary colors for Positive Pandemic Experiment (PPE)<\/a>, the shelter in place Instagram show that I was in.<\/p>\n Before, every other weekend I would go out and look at other people\u2019s work. I can\u2019t do that now because I don\u2019t get to leave my house really. When I look at stuff online it\u2019s absolutely not the same, especially painting. I mean any art really, painting or sculpture, you want to get in there and really see it. And that is painful not to be able to see real art.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>Cousin Lori & Mascot by Clea Felien<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>