Nan Hass Feldman

Blessed by a love of life, an optimistic outlook, a very high energy level, a passion for painting, and a drive to put and keep my creative life in the forefront--I believe all this has gone into my forty plus year career as an artist.

Since early childhood, I have had a love for strong color and design, regardless of whatever medium I used, be it drawing, collage, mixed-media, oils, acrylics, oilsticks, or encaustics. Regardless of medium, my work is image-based and revolves around the house (both interiors and exteriors) and landscapes as subjects. These subjects are the armature on which I can apply my subjective response to place and time, engaging emotions, fantasy, and fiction. I love to capture my real environments or those of friends and places I've been to, through my screen of selective seeing, playful detail, heightened color, intricate design and pattern, and bits of fantasy.
For me, art really is about enhancing and interpreting reality to create a more optimistic and joyous world.

1993 M.F.A., Vermont College
1987 M.A., Goddard College
1972 B.F.A., State University of New York at Buffalo

Solo Exhibitions
2017 JAM with Nan: Paintings from Japan, Australia, and Mexico, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA

2016 Antipodes: Paintings Inspired by Mexico and the Southern Pacific, Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, MA

2015 Seeing the Sun the Other Way Around: Memories of Travel, The Art Gallery at North Hill, Needham, MA

2014 The Garden and Beyond: New Paintings, Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, Massachusetts

Solo Exhibition at the Hynes convention Center, Boston, MA this September 2013-January 2014

2013 Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

Dragonfly Gallery, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, MA

Places and Stories: 1980s to the Present, Hynes Convention Center, South Rotunda Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

Artisans Way Fine Art and Craft Gallery, Concord, Massachusetts

2012 Dreaming East, Dreaming West, Fountain Street Fine Art Gallery, Framingham, Massachusetts

Favorite Places/Favorite Spaces, Wellesley Free Library, Wellesley, Massachusetts 2012

Danforth Museum of Art: Off the Wall: Community of Artists
Juried Exhibition

2011 Places I’ve Been: Real and Imagined, Concord Art Association, Concord, Massachusetts

2010 La Belle Vie: Paintings from France, The Frenc...