Nicole Phungrasamee Fein’s work is about processes of line
making. Her second solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery is compris-
ed of watercolor paintings on paper and three-dimensional
works made of linen.

Fein’s sculptures are the product of a multitude of stitched lines.
Sewn seams become cubes. Row after row of cubes form struc-
ture and pattern. References to Lewitt and André are subverted
by the homeliness of the material.

For her paintings, Fein applies free-hand brushstrokes of water-
color, forming bands of color. The process of each stroke is a
cycle of inhalation, breath retention during the mark making,
then exhalation. Laid one next to the other, the bands become
fields of complex, luminous color or shimmering, optical, woven
plaids. Through a process that owes as much to performance-
based body art or meditation practices as it does to traditional
painting, Fein creates artifacts of quiet beauty.

Fein’s work has recently been purchased for the collections of
the Berkeley Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum,
Honolulu, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Mills
College Art Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the
Whitney Museum of American Art.