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Lynne Feinberg

Lynne Feinberg’s artwork pushes at edges. She gathers from the natural world, the built environment, folktales, and dreams, and then lets these fragments collide in what she calls a “mad sort of harmony.” Her images and objects are beautiful but never pristine. Something is always a little off-kilter, because our world is a little off-kilter.

Drawing is the through-line. Sometimes it’s quick marks in a pocket sketchbook, other times it expands into large, physical gestures on paper or wood. Sculpture is where these tensions take form. With immediacy, energy, and improvisation, Feinberg builds with wood the way some artists draw. She works almost entirely with salvaged or gifted scraps: the leftover cuttings from cabinet shops, the odd lengths and off-casts pulled from the city. She carves, paints, and fits the pieces together until rhythm and story emerge. Her sculptures are never rigid. They lean, twist, and reach. Their hand-worked surfaces carry both history and motion. They feel alive, as though they might keep shifting when your back is turned. Drawing and sculpture are inseparable: on paper, line suggests form; in wood, form becomes line in three dimensions. Shapes crowd and settle, surfaces hum with painted detail, narratives suggest themselves without dictating plots.

Her artistic journey has been wide: early work included mosaics and cold-cast metal relief sculpture, later branching into drawing and mixed-media objects. Over many years she worked with animal and human forms; these gave way gradually to more abstracted imagery, shapes, textures, color, pattern, elements freed from representational narrative. Feinberg lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she maintains a studio that is as much a workshop of experiment as it is a place of making. Her studio sits by train tracks. The rumble of passing freight shakes the space, a reminder that her process is always in conversation with movement, interruption, and the possibility of transformation.

portfolio.jpg View Lynne Feinberg's artwork in the 2026 exhibition, Stillness.

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