Sean Sullivan and Jeff Feld
Pas de deux
September 11 - October 16, 2021
Chris Sharp is pleased to present a two-person exhibition of Queens-based artist Jeff Feld and Upstate New York-based artist Sean Sullivan.
The work of Jeff Feld and Sean Sullivan shares a similar proclivity for the idiosyncratic. Whether it be in drawing, collage or sculpture, materials, colors and forms tend to lead the decision making process, which often leads to surprising results. Jeff Feld is a sculptor whose work is marked by an interest in materials, formal invention and a dry, absurdist sense of humor, while Sean Sullivan’s works on paper, which exist somewhere between painting, drawing, monoprint, and, say, writing, not to mention classical (indexical) photography, marvelously resist classification.
For the exhibition at Chris Sharp Gallery, Jeff Feld will present a single, multifaceted sculpture, whose recursive, ovular shapes fashioned out of cardboard reflect the repetitive quality of Sean Sullivan’s oil transfer paintings on found paper. Spirited forms meet exuberant color in an elegant pas de deux.
Jeff Feld
Jeff Feld’s artworks have been featured in national and international exhibitions at such venues as Feuilleton in Los Angeles, The Drawing Center, Artists Space, White Columns Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum and The Queens Museum in New York, and Dunkers Kulturhus in Helsinborg, Sweden. His work resides in numerous private collections as well as in The New School University Collection, and in SYZYGY–The JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection. A former child protective services social worker, Feld received his MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2002. He lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens.
Sean Sullivan
(b. 1975, Bronx, NY; lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY.)
A selection of recent one and two person exhibitions includes: (2023) Excitations (drawings of concern) Et Al., San Francisco; (2021) Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; 2021 New Mnemonics - Gallery Fifty One / Fifty One Too, Antwerp, Belgium; (2020) Feuilleton, Los Angeles; (2019) BDDW Annex Gallery, New York, NY; (2018) String Figures, with Christoph Schellberg, A collaboration between Markus Luttgen Gallery and Linn Luhn Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany; (2018) à ùne éa, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY; (2017) WEST / END / BLUES, 57w57Arts, New York, NY; (2017) Ubbe & Sacco - 510 Warren Street Gallery, Hudson, NY; (2017) Sunset, Saudade Station, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL. A selection of recent group exhibitions includes: (2021) Feeling are Facts - Poker Flats - Williamstown, MA; Hudson House, Hudson, NY; (2020) Three Painters - The Arts Center at Duck Creek - East Hampton, NY - Curated by Hiroyuki Hamada; (2019) Sun is Setting / Faith in Strangers, Devening Projects, *Curator; (2018) Museum for Drawing, Ute Parduhn Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany; (2017) Mon Oncle, Museum for Drawing, Hunningen, Belgium; (2017) We’ll turn Manhattan into an island of joy, Markus Luttgen Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
Sean Sullivan, Ascension (New Mnemonics No. 1), 2020. Oil on found paper, 6.75 x 10.25 in (17.14 x 26.03 cm)
Sean Sullivan, Love of Labor, 2021. Oil on found paper, 6.75 x 10.25 in (17.14 x 26.03 cm)
Sean Sullivan, Ekphrastic Monastic, 2021. Oil on found paper, 8 x 6.75 in (20.32 x 17.14 cm)
Jeff Feld, A series of make do operations, 2019. Cardboard, plaster, tape, zip ties, 57 x 40 x 35 in (144.78 x 101.6 x 88.9 cm)