{"id":330,"date":"2012-08-24T23:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T23:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=330"},"modified":"2012-08-24T23:31:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T23:31:35","slug":"bella-feldman-artist-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Bella Feldman Artist Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Started working in glass in 1995 at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA) in Oakland,<\/strong> <strong>CA.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"Artist Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bellafeldman.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.bellafeldman.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bella makes extraordinary objects-objects that rivet your attention by their physical appearance; the weight, mass, volume, material, posture, balance, and motion immediately access a bodily response. Then your mind, your sense of poetry, human imagination, and memory tune in and hold you there. Bella&#8217;s works are intended to keep and enlarge their meaning over time; their layered imageries shift and evolve with the viewer&#8217;s own moods and experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The materials for her sculptures are chosen not only for structural reasons but also for the references they embody.<\/p>\n<p>Although the objects are beautiful, they contain an element of threat and of irony. They are what the critic Harold Rosenberg aptly called <strong>&#8220;anxious objects.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They are made in anxious times. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_333\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bella-Feldman-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"size-large wp-image-333\" title=\"Kapow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bella-Feldman-2-760x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bella-Feldman-2-760x1024.jpg 760w, http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bella-Feldman-2-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bella-Feldman-2.jpg 1556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Kapow&#8221;<br \/>Bella Feldman<br \/>2010<br \/>Blown Glass and Steel<br \/>60\u201d x 55\u201d x 20\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_332\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bella-Feldman-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332\" class=\"size-large wp-image-332\" title=\"Jacob\u2019s Ladder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bella-Feldman-1-677x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"883\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bella-Feldman-1-677x1024.jpg 677w, http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bella-Feldman-1-198x300.jpg 198w, http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bella-Feldman-1.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Jacob\u2019s Ladder&#8221;<br \/>Bella Feldman<br \/>2011<br \/>Glass and Steel<br \/>151\u201d x 66\u201d x 48\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started working in glass in 1995 at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA) in Oakland, CA. www.bellafeldman.com Bella makes extraordinary objects-objects that rivet your attention by their physical appearance; the weight, mass, volume, material, posture, balance, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s-aritsts","category-artist-bio","category-california-artists","category-conference-presenters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}