South Gallery
February 8, 2025, through March 25, 2025
Reception: Wednesday, February 12, 6-8 pm, in the Trefz Forum; click here for more information.
(Reception kicks off at 6 pm, followed by a conversation between Fehlinger, Nina Bentley, Jean Krasno, and Miggs Burroughs at 7 pm.)
Throughout her 35-year career as a television producer in New York City, Susan Fehlinger yearned to paint. In 2003, she finally decided to quit her job and do just that — by exploring her right brain after years of favoring the left.
“I discovered the palette knife that year and found that I could apply paint on a canvas quickly, thickly, and spontaneously. I loved the textures I could produce with the knife and I loved no brushes to wash," Fehlinger said. "I am a self-taught artist. I wanted to create a strong sense of place — a familiar but somewhat abstracted place — and then capture it when the light is just right.”
Fehlinger has since moved to Bridgeport, where she enjoys painting urban landscapes inspired by many years in New York. There, she works in her studio at Metro Arts, where she paints or teaches on a daily basis.
