Imperfections By Chance: Paul Feeley Retrospective, 1954-1966

. A timely new publication which charts the full range of Paul Feeley’s influential life and career Paul Feeley (1910 1966) is a towering figure in postwar American modernism. His legendary tenure as head of the art department at Bennington College and resulting associations with the likes of Lawrence Alloway, Helen Frankenthaler, Clement Greenberg, Jackson Pollock and David Smith, informed his unique approach to painting as an open-ended proposition. Represented during his lifetime by the Betty Parsons Gallery and honoured posthumously by a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, he is the subject of this timely new publication, which accompanies a major exhibition organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. In addition to colour plates of all works in the exhibition-nearly one hundred paintings, works on paper and sculptures-this volume features essays by exhibition curator Douglas Dreishpoon, Tyler Cann and Raphael Rubinstein as well as an illustrated chronology by Cary Cordova. From his early Abstract Expressionist inspired paintings to his organic, anthropomorphic figure ground compositions and later diagrammatical, hard-edged works, Imperfections by Chance charts the full range of Feeley’s influential life and career. AUTHOR: Douglas Dreishpoon is chief curator emeritus at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Tyler Cann is associate curator of Contemporary Art at the Columbus Museum of Art Raphael Rubinstein is a New York based poet and art critic Cary Cordova is associate professor of American Studies at the University of Texas 110 colour and 30 b/w illustrations