Hank Feeley
Old Painter, New Paintings.
September 3–27, 2025
Hank Feeley, Old Painter Attacks New Canvas, oil on Canvas, 44 x 56 inches, 2025
Artist Talk: Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 4–6pm
Reception: Thursday, September 4, 2025, 6–8pm
FIRST STREET GALLERY is pleased to announce Hank Feeley’s return to New York with an exhibition of new work titled “Old Painter, New Paintings.” Feeley’s exhibition is on view September 3–27, 2025.
Apparently, Confucius said, “With years of lived experience, your creations will be more rich and fertile.” Sounds like a fortune cookie, but Hank Feeley’s new paintings prove the point. This is Feeley in his classic non-sequitur mode. Paintings and mixed media concocted out of the grab bag of our lives, enhanced by the beauty of random musings.
The works are lively and bright and have a collage-based visual approach involving multiple elements playing off one another. For example, a painting in the show “Cheers” features a partially naked pink angel with multicolored wings offering the viewer an aperitif of spiritual nectar, while the foreground features a combination of colorful spherical shapes and mysterious flowers, and the background reveals a hilltop aerie silhouetted by the setting sun. Feeley has said, “My compositions are aesthetically pleasing, at least to me.”
Hank Feeley will be present at First Street Gallery for an artist talk on September 3, 2025, from 4 to 6pm. In addition, the Gallery will hold a reception for the exhibition the following day on September 4, 2025, from 6 to 8pm.
A few quotes about Feeley’s work:
“If Hank Feeley were not so strikingly original, I would say that he stands at the intersection of Magritte and Marvel Comics, but as it is, he has his own way of disorienting the viewer so we can see again, now with our perception refreshed.” – Billy Collins
“The intensity of his style, combining imagery from popular culture, art history and advertising, with heady color, has something in common with surrealist Max Ernst’s description of his own work in collage: ‘A linking of two realities that by all appearances have nothing to link them, in a setting that by all appearances does not fit them.” – Ellen Fischer
“Hank Feeley’s work is batting 1000% with me.” – Ed Paschke
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 11am to 6pm
