- WORKS
- BIOGRAPHY
- EXHIBITIONS
Sculptor Bella Feldman’s work has shown internationally in solo and group shows since 1976 to great acclaim. She 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’s works are intended to keep and enlarge their meaning over time; their layered imageries shift and evolve with the viewer’s own moods and experiences. The materials for her sculptures are chosen not only for structural reasons but also for the references they embody.
Feldman has participated in over fifty solo exhibitions including several solo museum shows (Oakland Museum Sculpture Court, San Jose Museum of Art, the Fresno Art Museum and the Downey Museum in California) and group shows in all parts of the US and in Switzerland. Her work has been published in numerous catalogues and articles and reviews have appeared throughout the art press. She has been invited to lecture at universities across the country and in Uganda. She has taught sculpture at a major California art school for several decades and chaired the sculpture department for two years. Her sculpture is in museum, corporate and private collections worldwide. Bella’s work has been commissioned by a variety of architects and she is the winner of several awards including the National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist’s Fellowship.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 Vessel Gallery, Oakland,CA
2013 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 50 Year Survey
2011 Nieto Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Anxious Objects
Public Glass, San Francisco, CA, Works in Glass and Steel
2010 San Luis Obispo Museum, San Luis Obispo, CA
Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Overview
2009 The Atrium @ 600 Townsend, San Francisco, CA, Metal and Glass
Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Bella Feldman–JP Long Dialogue
2008 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2007 Sculpturesite, San Francisco, CA
Buschlen Mowatt, Palm Desert, CA
2006 Sculpturesite, San Francisco, CA
Habatat Gallery, Chicago, IL, Glass Engravings
2004 Habatat Gallery, Chicago, IL, War Toys Redux
Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA, War Toys Redux
Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Crafts and Cultural Arts Gallery, California State Building, Oakland, CA
2003 Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA, War Toys Redux
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, War Toys Redux
2002 Tucson Museum, Tucson, AZ
Habatat Chicago, Chicago, IL, Flasks of Fiction
Buschlen Mowatt, Palm Desert, CA
Habatat Pontiac, Pontiac, MI
2001 Habatat Chicago, Chicago, IL
2000 Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Habatat Chicago, Chicago, IL
1998 D. P. Fong, San Jose, CA
Pat Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, New Work
1996 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA. (Distinguished Woman Artist of 1996),
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Decompression Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
1994 Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, War Toy Installation
1993 Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Downey Museum, Downey, CA
St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1992 California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Oakland Museum, Downtown Sculpture Court, Oakland, CA
1991 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
SPACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1988 Foxley Leach Gallery, Washington, DC
SPACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, Bella Feldman, Steel Sculpture (funded by
Chicago Arts Council)
SPACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Fiber Forms of Bella Feldman
Monterey Peninsula Museum, Monterey, CA, Sculpture
1983 University of Denver, Denver, CO, Sculpture by Bella Feldman
1982 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Bella T. Feldman/Sculpture
1980 Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA,
Spine Series
1976 Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1975 Gallerie Bernard Letu, Geneva, Switzerland, Bella: Sculptures
University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, Installation Metamorphosis
1973 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. Metamorphosis
Group Exhibitions (*indicates curator)
2015 Petaluma Art Center, Petaluma, CA, All That Glitters
Yianna Grammatopoula Gallery, Athens, Greece, Magic Carpet Ride
San Luis Obispo Museum, San Luis Obispo, CA. CA Sculpture Slam
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA. The Object and the Void
Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, CA, Vesse
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA. Dorothy Saxe Invitational
Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA. Woman
Cabrillo College Gallery, Apton, CA. Material Illusions
2014 A New Leaf Gallery/Sculpturesite, Sonoma CA. Being Woman
Paradise Ridge Winery Santa Rosa, CA 20@20
2013 A New Leaf Gallery/Sculpturesite, Sonoma CA. Black_White_Red
Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA. Armed Medium: The Military Vehicle
as Subject
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, New Media Combinations
Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa CA. Tradition of
Mayhem
2012 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, Playing with Fire: Artists
of the California Studio Glass Movement.
2011 Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA, 75th Anniversary Show
Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Amorphous Dreams
2009 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA, estro-GEN
2008 Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, Artists of Invention: 100 years CCA
2007 Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2006 Fresno Art Museum and Art Center, Fresno, CA, 18 Profiles, Distinguished Women Artists of California.
Whitney Biennial 2006, Peace Tower, New York, NY
2005 Habatat Chicago, Chicago, IL
Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, Toys
2001 Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Being There: 45 Artists
1996 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA,
Generations: The Lineage of Influence in the Bay Area,
1994 Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL, Menorah Exhibit
Alternative Museum, New York, NY, National Showcase
1993 Rockford Museum, Rockford, IL, War Toy Installation
1992 Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado,
Colorado Springs, CO, Crossovers
1991 Oakland Museum, Downtown Sculpture Court, Inaugural Exhibition,
Phil Linhares*
1989 Baeker Galerie, Cologne, Germany, Five California Artists
1988 Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, MD, Tangents: Seven Artists,
Mary Jane Jacob* Traveling to Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Cleveland
Art Institute, Cleveland, OH
1986 Fresno Art Museum and Art Center, Fresno, CA,
Survey of California Women Artists 1945 Present, Joyce Aiken*
1985 San Francisco Airport Commission, San Francisco, CA,
Menagerie-Contemporary Animal Images
Focus Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland, Six Artistes of the Biennale
Musee de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, Fibre/Sculpture Biennale
1984 Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX, The Presence of Light, Betty Park*,
Dominique Mazaud*
Twining Gallery, New York, NY, Art in Craft Media, Mildred Constantine*
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI, Fiber Cross Currents
1983 Musee de Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland,
Fibre/Espace; Tapisserie Biennale
Japan Traveling Exhibit, Art and/or Craft USA: 1982 Japan, Sherri Warner*
1982 Walnut Creek Art Center, Walnut Creek, CA,
Between the Lines: Lightweight Sculpture
Visual Art Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK,
National Sculpture Invitational, (Traveled to Fairbanks and Juneau)
1978 80 Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit, Paper as Medium, Jane Farmer*
1976 SPACE Gallery, Los Angeles, Death Show, Ed Lau*
Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, The Handmade Paper Object,
Richard Kubiak* (Traveled until 1982)
Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA, The Multiple Image
1975 Athol McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA,
Paper Sculpture
1974 Womanspace, Los Angeles, CA. Taboo Show