Nicole Phungrasamee Fein 妮可·蓬格拉萨米·费恩

Nicole Phungrasamee Fein was born in Evanston, Illinois (1974) and grew up in Santa Barbara, California. She attended Tufts University (BA), the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (BFA), and Mills College, Oakland, CA (MFA). She lives and works in San Francisco.

 

Nicole Phungrasamee Fein is noted for her agile handling of pigment on paper.  Going back two decades, her drawings are made sequentially.  As the work has evolved, delicacy and tranquility are constant.  Multiple layers of earth tones in overlapping strokes - left/right, top/bottom - defined the earliest pieces.  The result is visually akin to weaving.  Gradually color choices expanded but remained muted.  About fifteen years ago, a decidedly more vibrant spectrum appeared.  Combined with predominantly horizontal lines, these evoked luminous landscapes or seascapes.  Later, lines radiating from a central point in the Tondi series introduced the circle to what had been predominantly square.

 

She has exhibited nationally and internationally including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Houston, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Zurich, and Berlin. Her work has been reviewed in ArtForum, The Week, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Francisco Chronicle, Artweek and ARTnews. Her work is included in permanent public collections: the Achenbach Foundation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Berkeley Art Museum; Blanton Museum; Fogg Museum; Hammer Museum; Menil Drawing Institute; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.