The Other Side

Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce Paul Feeley: The Other Side, an exhibition of paintings and watercolors at 545 West 20th Street. Opening on Tuesday, February 27, 2018, the exhibition is the artist’s third with the gallery. Eight of Feeley’s brightly colored abstractions will be on view, as well as a selection of related watercolors.

The exhibition provides a detailed view of Feeley’s work from 1954 to 1959—the period during which he created what he considered his earliest “professional” paintings. In fall 1955, Feeley had his first solo exhibition at New York’s Tibor de Nagy Gallery. One painting in the exhibition, Red Blotch (1954), stood out as something distinctly different.

The Apollonian character of the paintings created for Feeley’s follow-up show in 1958 would have been hard to miss. Begun in 1956 and loosely titled after islands of the Cyclades, the series, completed in 1959, explores the terrain of organic abstraction through the most reductive of means, distinguished by works such as Ios (1957), Sterope (1957), Syphos (1958), and Melos (1958), as well as Kilroy, The Other Side, and Between the In and the Out, all 1957.

Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to represent the Estate of Paul Feeley.